designation
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The new distinguished military college designation doesn’t give the five participating schools senior military college status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Rule No. 3: Choose your power of attorney designation wisely.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
He recently made a trip to Ace Hardware to mark it with its new designation: a big, fluorescent No. 80.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Dr. Martin said researchers had already recognized that the Drimolen population of P. robustus was distinctive enough to receive a separate subspecies designation, P. Robustus ukusa.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
He also carried a military title, thus outranking Burr with his honorary designation as “General Hamilton,” based on his last appointment, that of inspector general of the New Army in 1799.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Here’s how to make sure your designations actually reflect what you want:
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
Those designations can help direct emergency assistance and other resources to affected communities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
But these designations do not overcome the environmental hurdles.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Their designations reflected their use: fighters—also called pursuit planes—were assigned letters F or P: for example, the Chance Vought F4U Corsair or the North American P-51 Mustang.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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47 Great Words from "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz
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