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designate

[dez-ig-nayt, dez-ig-nit, -nayt] / ˈdɛz ɪgˌneɪt, ˈdɛz ɪg nɪt, -ˌneɪt /




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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

Genstar will be entitled to designate two directors to Victory Capital’s board, which will expand to 11 members upon closing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Now,” boomed Wednesday, over the mechanical music, “at the start of any quest or enterprise it behooves us to consult the Norns. So let us designate this Sybil our Urd, eh?”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

The U.S. rightly designates GPS as critical infrastructure, but the reference frame that gives every GPS signal its meaning enjoys no such protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

China’s latest Five-Year Plan explicitly designates it as one of seven “future industries” set to drive national growth.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

I look up and see Plutarch Heavensbee in the magnificent purple robe with the fur-trimmed collar that designates him as Head Gamemaker.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

The stellar system, designated GPM J071507−114153, contains a white dwarf and a G-type star orbiting one another.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

My older brother has since named me executor of his will and designated me as his sole beneficiary.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Before he was elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost was the bishop designated to hear from victims of the influential Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

The document did not state that the peptides they’d be offered for oral consumption were still officially designated for lab use only.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

With my free hand, I reached into my pocket to grab the dollar I had designated to pay for those stupid chips.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

Ware also suggests designating a spot in, or near each room, to be your processing center.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The ballot measure also would make a major change to gubernatorial recall elections by automatically designating the lieutenant governor as the replacement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The U.S. held a near-monopoly on the gas, designating it a strategic resource and prohibiting its exportation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"It is the first model we are designating at this level, and requires stronger safeguards during development and before release," the blog said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Just three weeks after Henrietta’s name was first published, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and launched the War on Cancer, designating $1.5 billion for cancer research over the next three years.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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