designate
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Public schools are named for him, local museums feature his work and in some locations the heads of the couple with the pitchfork are used to designate men’s and women’s restrooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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
She said if Stormont is serious about Bengoa's report and improving the health care system they "must enshrine this absolute right in law" for patients to designate an essential family carer.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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
“We wear seven different colors, to designate our jobs. As a maintenance technician, my deck jersey, float coat, and helmet are an ugly green, the color of overcooked peas.”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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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
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
The brand said in a May earnings call that quarterly sales in the region it designates as Greater China exceeded the Asia-Pacific regional growth figure of 44%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The case stems 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 ● Jun. 13, 2026
In fact, the term “graphic art,” which designates drawings and prints, comes from the Greek word for writing, graphos.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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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
Black and brown people in ghetto communities must no longer be viewed as the designated enemy, and ghetto communities must no longer be treated like occupied zones.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
Ware also suggests designating a spot in, or near each room, to be your processing center.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
ChatGPT’s guardrails for underage users fall short of OpenAI’s commitments to child safety, a nonprofit group said Wednesday, designating the company’s ChatGPT for Teens offering as an “Unacceptable Risk.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
These are mostly the same issues that sank previous rounds, including a cap on plastic production, mention of human health, and designating problematic plastic products or chemicals of concern.
From Barron's ● Oct. 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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