delegate
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“I’ve learned to delegate and let other people take over.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The court may specify how that disposal will happen, or it may delegate that decision to a person appointed to carry out the order.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
As AI begins building AI, the country that trusts its models most can delegate the most and compound the fastest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
With temperatures dipping around Madrid, "there is a real opportunity now to tackle this fire with some guarantee of success," the central government's delegate in the Spanish capital, Francisco Martin, told reporters late Friday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
He had to delegate authority to a small circle of trusted manhunters, including Lieutenant Lafayette Baker, newly arrived from New York.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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It was Ghana that tabled the UN resolution, and in June, a summit on reparations was held in its capital, Accra, with delegates from around 80 countries, who concluded that recompense was long overdue.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Kim needed at least two thirds of the 1,000 delegates attending the labor federation’s Oakland convention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
But his comment went down with the delegates like a lead balloon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The upshot was that instead of a more community-minded gathering of citizens casting ballots for friends and neighbors, delegates were simply voted into the state convention based on whom they would support for the Senate.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Granted, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had engaged in extensive debates about the slave trade and how to count slaves for the purposes of representation and taxation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The position is usually delegated to a junior minister, the paper explains.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Lunetta pointed out that hospitals "have repetitive tasks" which "could be delegated to a good robot".
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
In 2022, the 5th Circuit ruled that this arrangement delegated “government power to a private entity without sufficient agency supervision” and struck it down.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2026
“I don’t see where Harmeet Dhillon has the experience or the normal level of authority that this would be delegated to,” the official said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
So finally they delegated me to tell him that he needed to take a bath more often.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Wasn’t it true, a juror asked, that he had taken to delegating tasks to subordinates in recent years?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Militaries adopt AI to speed up processes such as target identification. But delegating life-and-death decisions to machines poses profound ethical and human rights risks," said Patrick Wilcken of Amnesty International.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
He has also espoused a more collegiate style of governance, delegating some particularly sensitive topics to his senior clergy.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
People can tell the difference between making a decision and delegating it to a system.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
He was delegating the red rubber bands to Laney when his mom called to him from the kitchen.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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