designating

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“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

The Pentagon has gone beyond declining to buy from Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk, which prevents Anthropic from working as a subcontractor on other Pentagon contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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