designating

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Carter administration lawyers said the president had the authority to designate an acting chair from among any of the Fed’s seven governors, and Carter issued an order designating Burns as the acting chair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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

That led to the Department of Defense designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk and barring the use of its tools at the Pentagon, following a six-month phase-out.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Anthropic, supported by Microsoft, sued the Department of Defense for designating it a supply-chain risk.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 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