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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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

The case stems 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 ● Jun. 13, 2026

The Five-Year Plan designates quantum as one of seven frontier technologies, with coordinated commercialization efforts focused on a smaller set of institutions.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 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

Min Zin is now held in an unknown location under what China calls “residential surveillance in a designated location,” according to the family spokeswoman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The day before: The eve of the championship will include a red carpet entrance for athletes, with a designated media day featuring press conferences and photoshoots.

From BBC ● 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

A few moments later he spread everything upon a workbench beside the designated oven, which he had chosen because no one chanced to be working near it today.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

In 2025, the Onion ran a spoof headline imagining the State Department designating the league a terrorist organization.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Her letter also called for the government to consider designating Heyford Park and its surrounding area as a priority monitoring site for the chemicals - known as PFAS.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Carter administration lawyers said the president had the authority to designate an acting chair from among any of the Fed’s seven governors, and Carter issued an order designating Burns as the acting chair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 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