assign
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Each member state must anonymously assign each candidate one of three labels: "encourage," "discourage," or "no opinion."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
It cannot tell me what level of risk I should assign to that fact.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It makes it harder to assign attribution because if all of your attacks and groups are coming out of Iran, you can pretty much link it to Iran," Wright said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The agency also refused to assign any benefits to the reduction of pollutants like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
“You brats want me to assign a quest?”
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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“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
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
He assigns Apple’s stock a neutral rating and a $270 price target.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
When I can find no more surfaces to wipe and have finally exhausted the supply of rooms, Maddy assigns me to do the kitchen floor.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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NSW State Emergency Services commissioner Mike Wassing said that codes are often assigned during major searches.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
As colleges reopened, Xu studied metallurgy and was later assigned to a state-run steel factory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Police assigned to airports must also undergo training on “constitutional limits regarding police encounters at airports.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Mr. Burger’s writings on “attribution science,” a theory central to those cases, are cited as neutral scientific authority throughout CJP’s modules and have been assigned as supplemental reading to judges attending its trainings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He was assigned to a listening post, and later he worked for the Ministry of Propaganda.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The second is whether financing terms show lenders assigning it value separately from the rest of the system.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Statutory law is assigning the loss at the same moment the market is writing itself out of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
The workout demonstrated that the horse was ready for the February 19 San Carlos Handicap, and for once the track secretary relented, assigning him 130 pounds.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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