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assign

[uh-sahyn] / əˈsaɪn /




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In other words, identical behavior did not lead people to assign the same level of consciousness to humans and machines.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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

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

“Please assign a Minder Model to Ella Durand for six weeks.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

AMD plans to sell Taalas technology inside systems alongside its Instinct GPUs, and a lender financing the whole rack reveals nothing about what it assigns to the model-specific part.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 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 assigns us to write an acrostic of our names, which is a poem where, for each letter of your name, you describe yourself with a word or phrase that starts with that letter.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

The researchers randomly assigned patients to three equally sized groups.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

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

Hospitals have adopted software tools to optimize staffing, with nurses more regularly covering shifts on floors where they aren’t usually assigned, to meet patient ebbs and flows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

For weeks Betsie and I were assigned to the Siemens factory.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

You can grieve the loss of your childhood home without assigning blame.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Trading cards and other collectibles are verified and assigned condition grades by PSA, which establishes their value and protects them by assigning serial numbers and certification information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The formal document assigning the island to Tycho was signed by the King on 23 May.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin


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