delegate
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The delegate requested anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
"The same thing is happening here as what is taking place with the IPCC," said a French government delegate at the COP17 summit in Yerevan, Armenia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
It’s that a woman who has paid to delegate a household task may find herself unexpectedly responsible for supervising its completion.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
She’s currently serving as a nurse delegate in contract negotiations with the hospital, an HCA Healthcare facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Before taking the signatures, the personal delegate of the president of the republic tried to read the act of surrender aloud, but Colonel Aureliano Buendía was against it.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Late in the convention, the delegates adopted the additional phrase “or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” in important part to expand the reach of impeachable corruption beyond technical bribery.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
This means it would also be a time of nervousness for delegates as they look around the room with its "empty chairs" following the scale of recent purges within the Party.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Under the constitution, Congress has authority over tariffs, which it delegates to the president in specific circumstances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Yet it’s unclear how many were able to attend, with some delegates forced to drive hours across the desert from Bahrain or Jordan to reach Riyadh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He claimed to be genuinely embarrassed at the stridently proslavery rhetoric of the delegates from the Deep South and much more comfortable on the high moral ground of his northern friends.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Seabright found that the revision made no meaningful difference because those powers could not have been delegated to Essayli in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
He dismissed Ezzo’s claim that he delegated some meetings to subordinates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Stevenson sits on the equality, human rights and civil justice committee as well as the transport committee, and is a substitute member of the delegated powers and law reform committee.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“This is the thing that as of today cannot be delegated to AI,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
I delegated what I could to Melissa and other members of my transition team.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Similarly to that crawl, L.A.’s will feature a passport system, which involves delegating stamps for every purchase of $10 or more at each stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
These set out guidance on what states can do to enhance credibility and improve transparency, including by delegating investigations to a third party if necessary.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
By delegating meeting prep and drafts of product-requirement documents to AI, she said can spend more time doing strategic work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
People can tell the difference between making a decision and delegating it to a system.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
This morning Dad has taken the liberty of delegating tasks through passive-aggressive Post-it notes hidden like Easter eggs all over the house.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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