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assign

[uh-sahyn] / əˈsaɪn /




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One proposal to promote evaluator independence would be for regulators to assign auditors from a licensed pool instead of having the labs hire their own auditors directly.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Years later, after Ruane became a scientist who sometimes has the opportunity to assign official names to newly recognized reptile species, she returned to that old magazine interview.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The report was heavily criticized for failing to assign blame or identify specific evacuation failures, but officials have said that wasn’t the goal of the McChrystal Group review.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rather, they are rethinking the role that digital offerings play in their operations and nudging employees to assign higher priority to customer service, not just rely on kiosk ordering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

When I finished that project, I expected to be sent back to West Computing so that Mrs. Vaughn could assign me to the next project, as was the normal protocol.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

AMD plans to sell Taalas technology inside systems alongside its Instinct GPUs, and a lender financing the whole rack reveals nothing about what it assigns to the model-specific part.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

She was 14 when she met 18-year-old “Sam,” a pseudonym Hackney assigns him in the memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Don’t lose it,” he said, “because the Registrar never assigns me counselees unless I request them.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Known as Porchfests, this trend involves a community-driven effort to organize and schedule a day of live performances in a residential area, with musicians of all skill levels and genres performing in assigned time slots.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Dozens of agents and prosecutors quit amid the department’s destruction, including the career attorney assigned to Kao’s case.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Randomized controlled trials are considered one of the strongest ways to test whether a treatment works because participants are assigned to different treatment groups, helping researchers reduce the influence of other factors.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The Hugging Face hack instead points to switched-off safeguards, tasks assigned without a valid exit, rewards for persistence, and an internet-accessible proxy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

My mother and sisters have been assigned to work the fields.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

A prospective study follows patients forward in time, while an observational study tracks what happens without assigning participants to different treatments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Jensen said assigning liability to the AI labs would force the companies into action.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

The law, if approved, would work by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Statutory law is assigning the loss at the same moment the market is writing itself out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

He’d declared September Community Spirit Month, decided everyone at school would be involved and started assigning all the projects he’d cooked up over the summer.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx




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