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They can also designate an entire area a face mask-free zone for the duration of a protest.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

They’ve already succeeded in convincing the government to designate the Vjosa Narta river area as a national park.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The third requires the government to consider economic and national security tradeoffs when deciding whether to designate a particular area as "critical habitat."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

It might deny a drug and designate a cheaper one, or it might say a procedure, test or treatment isn’t medically necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Amaranta felt so uncomfortable with her defective diction and her habit of using euphemisms to designate everything that she would always speak gibberish in front of her.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The case stemmed from a broader legal dispute over the renaming of the cultural institution, which US law designates as a memorial to President John F Kennedy.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

Second, the order designates as an organization something the FBI’s past leadership has described as an ideology.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

In fact, the term “graphic art,” which designates drawings and prints, comes from the Greek word for writing, graphos.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Exports of electricity to neighbouring countries including Thailand and Vietnam are a key source of revenue for the landlocked nation, designated as a least developed country by the United Nations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

When the head clerk asks Stormfield where he’s from, an assistant locates Earth on a map—it’s designated “The Wart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The priority is to follow designated evacuation routes and local instructions, not wait for a better view of the water.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

With Ohtani out, first baseman Freddie Freeman moved to the designated hitter spot Tuesday, essentially giving him a half-day off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In December, my mother and I were transferred from Ghetto B, the section where we had been living, to Ghetto A, the area now designated for workers.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

On his first day back in office, US President Donald Trump announced he would increase pressure on Mexico and the cartels, including designating the criminal enterprises terrorist groups.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Clients often hear financial planners talk in terms of designating different buckets of money to organize a portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

But as Exxon replies, a “substantial portion of the S&P 500 including the majority of Delaware incorporated issuers, maintain exclusive-forum provisions designating a single court for internal affairs litigation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

“You don’t want localities or states getting into the business of designating their enemies or their political adversaries or the people they disagree with as terrorists. That’s just not a good thing,” Sinnar said.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 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