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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

Ellison and longtime Skydance investor, RedBird Capital Partners, then entered into agreements to assign some of their purchase rights to the sovereign wealth funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

“But when you get a mountain collapse with a glacier and this kind of cataclysm, you cannot assign a likelihood to it,” Biedermann said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The man's eyes scan the sidewalk as if to find an adult to assign us to.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

With the U.S. leading in research, technology and branding, it assigns production of sophisticated components to its skilled workers and sends intermediate goods to Mexico or Canada for finishing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

After our mile warm-up, Coach West explains how we’re going to try a bunch of different things, and she assigns us to groups.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

“The implications for copper supply are significant” and support premiums increasingly being assigned to some operating mines, brownfield expansions and “derisked” development assets, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Under the new measures, to be funded out of the Ministry of Justice budget, court staff will be given "trauma-informed training" and a single person of contact will be assigned to each survivor.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The Deutsche Bank CDO salesman—a fellow named Ryan Stark—had been assigned to keep an eye on Eisman and prevent him from causing trouble.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

People keep assigning him symbolic roles: first Muslim senator, Muslim socialist, proof of Democratic radicalism, proof of Muslim political progress.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Instead of assigning quantum information to individual qubits, this approach stores it in microwave fields inside superconducting circuits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Traders have dramatically repriced BOJ expectations, now almost fully counting on a rate hike at the Sept. 17-18 meeting and assigning high odds to another by year’s end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Why he was assigning locations to his followers.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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