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The first thing to do on scene was assign a firefighter to walk 360 degrees around the burning structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

The advance could help geologists, paleontologists and archaeologists assign more reliable dates to events in Earth's past.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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

Putting his arm around her, he said, “Anyhow it’s over. And I’ve been thinking; maybe Harry Bryant can assign me to a—”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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 Clean Air Act assigns primary responsibility for regulating emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency, while preserving only limited state authority over in-state sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

Scientists rate the strength of an earthquake using the moment magnitude scale, a system that gauges the amount of energy released by the quake and assigns it a number.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

One Polymarket betting market has assigned a roughly 10% chance that the AI bubble will burst before New Year’s Day, according to the latest numbers available on the platform.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

In the summer of 2024, Kate Fifield, a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s anti-corruption section, had been assigned to join the case.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

That same 7 percent loss would thus wipe out, entirely, any CDO made up of triple-B bonds, no matter what rating was assigned it.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

They ended up splitting the class and assigning more students to other teachers, she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 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

Perhaps, Gogol begins to wonder hopefully, Mr. Lawson has no intention of assigning the Gogol story.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri