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Humans can discuss responsibilities and deliberately assign them, but a bee colony has no central planner.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

Traders nonetheless continued to assign low odds to a July move, with the likelihood implied by futures markets standing at just 10%, after this week’s cooler-than-expected inflation data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Zelensky separately said he planned to assign different people to manage different areas of foreign policy, and that he had offered Svyrydenko a new role leading "relations with a key partner", without elaborating.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

“Don’t take too long, or I’ll need to assign some extra art homework just for you!” she teases.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

That number is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s “heat-sensitivity score,” a rating a computer assigns based on medical conditions and medications that could make someone more susceptible to heat.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

Each quarter, S&P Dow Jones Indices begins with the full S&P Small Cap 600 index and then assigns three factor scores to each company:

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

The nanozymes hypothesis assigns several important functions to natural MN-zymes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Secondly, he is a structured manager with a vision about the game, which assigns a job description for every player, and the role they need to carry out.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

To make races more competitive, tracks schedule “handicap” races, in which a racing secretary, also called a track handicap- per, assigns more accomplished horses higher weights, or imposts, than less accomplished horses.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Among participants assigned to eat one avocado per day, LDL particle concentrations fell by 49 nanomoles per liter.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

His sentencing hearing was told forms used to monitor and record burials and cremations had not been returned and, according to the prosecution, "not followed up by the assigned registrar".

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

I work in Denver and was recently assigned to a boss who lives in Nashville, Tenn.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

All three charges are assigned to Patrick’s newly formed Religious Liberty Committee, chaired by state Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, that was announced in March.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

So the Paris-Journal assigned the thief to tell his own story.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

It is assigning no value whatsoever to these environmental benefits, thereby ignoring the very health concerns the agency was created to address.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026

Instead, she is assigning the man on her left, Shigeto Nose, to temporarily carry out her role.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Boll believes Germany “banned” the film by not assigning it an age rating, fearing it could incite violence, making it unfit for German theatrical release.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

The media blitz shocked some at City Hall, who believed Crowley should have waited until the emergency was over before publicly assigning blame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Why he was assigning locations to his followers.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu