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

Not Anthropic, which is suing the Defense Department for designating it a supply-chain risk, threatening its relationships with other customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He liked the tried and true “blue team-red team” strategy of designating people to explicitly challenge models and assumptions to overcome institutional biases.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 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