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We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

The German self-regulatory body for film ratings declined to assign an age rating for home entertainment release and gave it a rating for theatrical release that made it permitted for ages 18 and up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

It also opposed plans to assign unique identification numbers to physical copies of the Guru Granth Sahib and maintain a central register, saying such decisions should not rest with the government.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

I do not assign genders to letter writers, but I do try to address all the options available to couples.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

There is obvious hazard in trying to assign a particular meaning to this special kind of sound, and problems like this exist throughout the field of bioacoustics.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

He served as secretary to the government of the federation, the office that assigns agencies their space and status, under Tinubu's predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Each quarter, S&P Dow Jones Indices begins with the full S&P Small Cap 600 index and then assigns three factor scores to each company:

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

A VPN with an American IP address may be a virtual server hosted outside the United States, but it still assigns users a U.S.-based IP address.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Standard & Poor’s assigns Israel an A rating with a stable outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 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

Sotomayor explained that the plaintiff “did not dispute” that “sex” in Title IX means “biological sex,” or sex was assigned at birth.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

Career civil servants were assigned there and ran a website on the government's official ".gov.ng" domain.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Pine said the matter has been assigned for a City Attorney hearing, a pre-filing diversion that is an alternative to misdemeanor prosecution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

The appeal was assigned to a different judge who, at the time, was the subject of widespread news coverage for inappropriate conduct.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

After cheating death, Burger was assigned to Germany's political division, where he worked on journalism and propaganda for the Nazis.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Boll believes Germany “banned” the film by not assigning it an age rating, fearing it could incite violence, making it unfit for German theatrical release.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

The ratings companies noted risks tied to SpaceX’s capital needs and nascent artificial intelligence business, while assigning a stable outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

But both actors argue the show is less interested in assigning blame than exploring an uncomfortable situation from multiple perspectives.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

I bet she’s thinking she made a big mistake assigning me to that event.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée