designation
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The island nation first received a TPS designation after a massive earthquake devastated it in 2010.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Those players are released in March but with a special accounting designation that pushes most of the newly created prorated charges into the following league year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The United States said Wednesday it will delist Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, a decades-old designation that severely impeded investment, in a new vote of confidence in leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
While the building’s bones remain intact — a requirement of its historic-cultural monument designation — the space has an industrial-modern twist inspired by L.A.’s creative spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
One was the designation of the Radiation Laboratory as an independent unit of the university, to ensure the “continuity and stability of the work.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The TPS law says that designations need to last between 6 and 18 months.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
The assets are made up of different types of funds under various sanctions designations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
McLaughlin hopes the designations will allow the trust to make its nature reserves "more resilient to the ravages of climate change" by restoring habitats and creating wildlife corridors beyond the boundaries of the reserves.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
In many cases, you would not need to be informed or provide consent for your husband to change his IRA beneficiary designations.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 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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Vocabulary lists containing designation
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