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Asked to assign a letter grade to Kevin Warsh, who became chairman of the Fed in May, 36% of respondents said it was too early.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Luria’s target is based on the idea that investors could come to assign a greater value to every dollar that Micron earns.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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

Now the City Circle’s packed with refugees, and the Peacekeepers are going door to door, breaking into places if they have to, to assign houseguests.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

This method assigns average calorie values to each gram of fat, carbohydrates, and protein, then uses those values to calculate the total available energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

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

At the end of each class, the teacher assigns work we’ll have to do at home.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Each one assigned supporters a specific task aimed at boosting Lula's visibility on social media.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

When study participants were exposed to a fictional perpetrator’s use of DARVO, they assigned less responsibility to the perpetrator and more responsibility to the victim.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Those who took at least 80% of their assigned medication were considered to have higher adherence, while those who took less than 80% were placed in the lower adherence group.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

In a sum-of-the-parts analysis of SpaceX in August, Deutsche Bank analysts assigned a base case enterprise-value multiple of five times revenue for the company’s AI business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

I was assigned a place on an upper bunk next to a woman whose body was covered with erupting pustules.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

James Blunt immediately took control, assigning players various different roles.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“My guess is the market is assigning this a low probability, but the consequences are large enough that it deserves some premium.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The bill, called the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, works 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 ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

Dedd realizes she is speaking to the picture of Minerva, as if she were assigning her a part, pinning her down with a handful of adjectives, the beautiful, intelligent, high-minded Minerva.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez