designating

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You can do this by designating a child as an authorized user, which is a person added to a credit-card account by the primary cardholder, although some issuers have age minimums as low as 13.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

The Pentagon on Monday updated its list of Chinese businesses the U.S. has identified as aiding Beijing’s military, designating around two dozen new companies, including tech giants Alibaba and Baidu, limiting their operations in America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

“For the first time in the program’s history, EPA is designating both microplastics and pharmaceuticals as priority contaminant groups,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

A court blocked the Pentagon from designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“What were your instructions,” Eldon Rosen asked, “if you wound up designating a human as android?”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick