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designation

[dez-ig-nay-shuhn] / ˌdɛz ɪgˈneɪ ʃən /




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Schools will now have to explain the entire designation process when students are first put in the English learner program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The community group co-manages the park with Haringey Council and has helped secure its designation as a site of importance for nature conservation.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The supply chain risk designation, formally made in March, canceled Anthropic's military contracts and barred other Pentagon contractors from using its technology.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will arrive in Washington on Wednesday for a state visit, following weeks of negotiations over the trip’s designation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Its designation was S14A316, but I’d renamed it Falco, after the Austrian rap star.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

When your employer changes plan providers: Beneficiary designations don’t transfer to a new plan automatically.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The United States has already applied similar designations to other Ecuadorian gangs, Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The USDA, for example, relies on the maps as part of a "fast track" process for issuing disaster designations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

But these designations do not overcome the environmental hurdles.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Lyell originally intended to employ "–synchronous" for his endings, giving us such crunchy designations as Meiosynchronous and Pleiosynchronous.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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