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Rather, they are rethinking the role that digital offerings play in their operations and nudging employees to assign higher priority to customer service, not just rely on kiosk ordering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It’s also important not to assign any meaning to a boss’s actions before talking to them, said Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and author of the book “Jerks at Work.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

It cannot tell me what level of risk I should assign to that fact.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Companies behind the apps control the gig work via algorithms that assign tasks, set pay, evaluate performance and even fire workers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

As the only state prison for women, Tutwiler has no way to meaningfully classify and assign women to appropriate dorms.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

She was 14 when she met 18-year-old “Sam,” a pseudonym Hackney assigns him in the memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

That number is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s “heat-sensitivity score,” a rating a computer assigns based on medical conditions and medications that could make someone more susceptible to heat.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

That seating chart accounts for all the rational numbers—it assigns each of them a seat—so we can count them off one by one, in order, based on their seat number.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

There were seats assigned by state and indicated by tall signs on poles, there was a host of precisely timed and deeply forgettable speeches by elected officials, and, of course, there was a keynote speaker.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

In May, the California Supreme Court ordered the attorney general’s office to respond to the arguments and assigned the case to a superior court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Key to lofty valuations being assigned to the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI is the assumption of massive growth—growth that can only occur if more data centers are opened to build and fuel AI’s expanse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Police said a dedicated team of officers had been assigned to the case, and were carrying out CCTV, house-to-house and forensic inquires.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

“I just reach in and slide this little notch on the side of the rotor. Slide it till it’s next to the assigned setting for the day.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Instead of assigning quantum information to individual qubits, this approach stores it in microwave fields inside superconducting circuits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

What doesn’t change is our impulse to explain complicated social and economic changes by assigning a personality to an entire generation.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

He is responsible for editing and assigning breaking and fast-moving stories for WSJ's digital audience, covering national events, local news and business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Analysts have become more optimistic about Southwest in recent months, with those assigning the company’s stock “buy” or “hold” ratings slowly becoming the majority.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

D.Q. is a very nervous girl who’s always forgetting things, so the teachers keep assigning her extra homework as punishment.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank