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It’s also important not to assign any meaning to a boss’s actions before talking to them, said Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and author of the book “Jerks at Work.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

It cannot tell me what level of risk I should assign to that fact.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Companies behind the apps control the gig work via algorithms that assign tasks, set pay, evaluate performance and even fire workers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The fund managers use internal analysis and outside consultants to assign ratings signaling whether those borrowers are meeting expectations and seem likely to keep paying their debts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

He whistled it when he had special jobs to assign or errands to be run.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 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

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

She assigns priority levels—critical, important and optional—to indicate what information is essential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

In Russian lit, Mrs. Mahone assigns us a five-page paper on Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

At the time, they assigned no value to the possibility of building new reactors but liked Westinghouse’s fuel fabrication and services business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The market has assigned confident odds to votes that will be cast after four numbers nobody has seen.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

About 2,192 firefighters have been assigned to the Timber fire and 661 to the Plaskett fire, with more expected to arrive in the coming days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

We randomly assigned participants to one of two groups.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

He assumed Merrill Lynch had taken its assigned place at the end of the chain.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

What doesn’t change is our impulse to explain complicated social and economic changes by assigning a personality to an entire generation.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

He is responsible for editing and assigning breaking and fast-moving stories for WSJ's digital audience, covering national events, local news and business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

Analysts have become more optimistic about Southwest in recent months, with those assigning the company’s stock “buy” or “hold” ratings slowly becoming the majority.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

She was standing in a huddle of Under Fifteen players, assigning them their positions.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John