- past participle of administer.
- past tense form of administer.
administered
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He gave no details about how the reward would be administered or funded.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Charter Amendment LA would change the way public works are administered in Los Angeles, allow the city to lease its underused land to tenants and open the door to greater city involvement in business enterprises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Additional support for the Hubble Space Telescope observations came through a grant administered by the Space Telescope Science Institute.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Keytruda is often given to patients after surgery to prevent the return of their cancer, but sometimes it’s administered to patients in advance of surgery to shrink the tumor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The pigs had sent out a large bottle of pink medicine which they had found in the medicine chest in the bathroom, and Clover administered it to Boxer twice a day after meals.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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