administer
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In 2002, Congress created the Election Assistance Commission to administer the Help America Vote Act, which assists states in reforming their elections.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
But “Tehran can disrupt the strait more easily than it can sustainably administer it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator, has also said that Iran will administer the strait after the war ends, according to Iranian state media.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
When psychologists administer the IAT, they usually don’t use paper and pencil tests like the ones I’ve just given you.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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He grooms them, administers their daily doses of medicine by hand and recognizes their individual personalities.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
The third-party certifying body administers random testing throughout the growing process and tests each product that arrives at the company’s New Jersey warehouse before it is released to stores, according to the website.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The Essequibo region comprises more than two thirds of Guyana, which currently administers it.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Brett Bezio, a spokesman for Arizona’s Department of Economic Security, which administers the program there, said work-requirement changes were the primary driver of the drop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
I watch as he puts the thin wafer between her dry lips and administers the cup, murmuring in Latin.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Barzar started to put a small amount of his paycheck into the account administered by T. Rowe Price, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
And despite the rules stating that a challenge from behind with studs-on-calf contact and a level of force should be a red card — no card was administered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The exact number of cases may never even be known, because family disputes are administered via county-level probate courts and there’s no national tracking of these cases.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Since the SIR exercise began on 4 November 2025 across 12 states and federally administered territories, about 60 million names have been removed from the electoral rolls.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
To ease the dying man, he administered a dose of calomel and placed loaves of hot bread around his body.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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During the appointment, Sawyer offered to inject up to a litre of filler, provided prescription-only medicines without a prescription being issued and suggested administering local anaesthetic without a prescriber present.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh were among those in attendance on Friday, with the former administering the oath of office to Warsh.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
CMS should publicly report the number of denials issued through WISeR and the financial gains realized by contractors administering the program, Cantwell said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
Recognizing this, some oncologists have begun administering drugs with restraint rather than abandon, aiming to keep the cancer in check rather than creating conditions that predispose to the rapid growth of resistant cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
“Wasn’t she taken away from you and taken to the hospital at Pawhuska? Weren’t you administering insulin to her?”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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