- present participle of assign.
assigning
Example Sentences
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Harrigan wrote that “the split is especially desirable in assigning fairer immediate value to the studio and parks businesses.”
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026
He sees the market assigning “too much confidence to a favorable outcome” and too little weight to the risks around unresolved nuclear issues and inspection disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
But both actors argue the show is less interested in assigning blame than exploring an uncomfortable situation from multiple perspectives.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
But I wanted to know what a teacher assigning the poem might want his or her students to discover.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
