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Interior Secretary Harold Ickes ended the skirmish by imposing a truce and persuading Congress to designate the dam as a federal project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

They can also designate an entire area a face mask-free zone for the duration of a protest.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

It might deny a drug and designate a cheaper one, or it might say a procedure, test or treatment isn’t medically necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The third requires the government to consider economic and national security tradeoffs when deciding whether to designate a particular area as "critical habitat."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The fair prompted President Harrison to designate October 12 a national holiday, Columbus Day, which today serves to anchor a few thousand parades and a three-day weekend.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which designates World Heritage sites, says it has asked the Kenyan government for information about the Lamu refinery plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

Second, the order designates as an organization something the FBI’s past leadership has described as an ideology.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 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

The U.S. has designated two large Brazilian crime syndicates as foreign terrorist organizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

In the end, there were none, but procedures were put in place as a precaution and we all had to practice filing into designated safe zones inside our building.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The government has additionally designated treatment and isolation facilities across the country, and health workers have been trained to deal with the disease.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Unified, 53 schools are designated for students rated as “gifted,” and there are four campuses with programs for highly gifted students, typically identified by a professional evaluator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

In his instructions to Van Ness, who had become his designated representative in the exchange, Burr explained that the Cooper letter was merely the most recent libel against him by Hamilton.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

For clients caught in a negative spiral, Mr. Schore suggests a “pity party”: designating a set amount of time to wallow in misery before snapping out of it and returning to productive behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

He never declared which of these times we were to abide by, however—which was curious, considering how much he’d talked about the importance of designating a hard deadline and sticking to it no matter what.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer