designate
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Flash makers typically had to designate Apple as a “most favored customer,” which guaranteed that no other buyer got a lower price, according to people familiar with the agreements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Binational Race USA’s managing director, Valerie Rivera, said the towing incidents took place at San Ysidro Village Shopping Center, which organizers didn’t designate or promote as an official parking area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The agency did not designate Graham, Clyburn and Wilson that way, but the agents were actively investigating their interactions with Kao.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
They can also designate an entire area a face mask-free zone for the duration of a protest.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Migrants will often designate one person to look out for trouble while the others rest.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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The White House official said Dans is one of two commission members the law designates as representatives of “the interests of industry.”
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
The case stemmed from a broader legal dispute over the renaming of the cultural institution, which US law designates as a memorial to President John F Kennedy.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Known as the Record of Emergency Data, this form designates that beneficiaries get $100,000 tax-free cash and any unreceived payments after a servicemember dies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Some well-known companies were added to the annually updated list, which designates them as a U.S. national-security risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
To initiate spatial teleportation, the traveler enters the STM with the EGG and designates their chosen timeprint.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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At the worst point, dozens of angry residents staged spontaneous protests outside Nongsa Digital Park -- a new cluster of data centres and other amenities, designated a special economic zone.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Johnson said the bureau places public trash receptacles along major commercial corridors and at designated bus stops, using data analytics and working with council offices to determine locations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The district is designated an Opportunity Zone under a nearly decade-old federal provision created to encourage investment in lower-income communities by offering tax breaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
The completed mission, designated U.S. spacewalk 100, marked Menon's fourth spacewalk and Kutryk's first.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
James, our designated driver, got the bus out of its space and a quarter of the way past the rows of parked vehicles when we heard the police whistle.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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A panel of judges, following the law, refused to allow Habba to serve in an interim capacity, forcing Trump to withdraw her name from consideration for the job, designating her acting U.S. attorney instead.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The U.S. held a near-monopoly on the gas, designating it a strategic resource and prohibiting its exportation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Deukmejian vetoed the bill, though Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation in 2024 designating the slimy yellow creature as the official state slug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
"It is the first model we are designating at this level, and requires stronger safeguards during development and before release," the blog said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Each library cart was labeled with two laminated cards: one with the name of a team, the other designating a range of Dewey decimal numbers.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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