designate
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Signatories agree to develop “robust” internal monitoring of models, use outside auditors to test them, and designate an independent board committee to oversee the internal safety team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
If you don’t know who to designate, the first thing to think about is who your state would pick if you don’t decide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The fair prompted President Harrison to designate October 12 a national holiday, Columbus Day, which today serves to anchor a few thousand parades and a three-day weekend.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
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
The brand said in a May earnings call that quarterly sales in the region it designates as Greater China exceeded the Asia-Pacific regional growth figure of 44%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Second, the order designates as an organization something the FBI’s past leadership has described as an ideology.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Denmark gives its citizens the choice of three official genders: male, female, and X.The White House designates a gender-neutral bathroom for visitors and staff.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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The house has also taken on male ambassadors this year, including actor Pedro Pascal, but still has no officially designated men's line.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Carney designated the pipeline a project of national interest, which he forecast would create 140,000 jobs and generate over C$20 billion in GDP a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Engineers designated a small section of each detector to rapidly monitor a different guide star -- stars whose positions are already known with high precision.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nobody knows where the Shakespeare nickname came from, but city officials designated the bridge as L.A.’s Historic-Cultural Monument No. 126 in 1974 and retrofitted it in the 1990s to better withstand earthquakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Luma designated the two chain-link baseball backstops on the field as goals.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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The details around his physical condition are particularly consequential because Xi has concentrated extraordinary power in his hands while designating no successor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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
"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
In 2025, the Onion ran a spoof headline imagining the State Department designating the league a terrorist organization.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Most of the gold imprint designating whether a given piece was a bishop, king, queen, or whatever had, from years of use, worn off.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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