assign
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If you’re a family that needs to sit together, for example, it’s not necessarily going to work out well if you leave it to the airline to assign your seats.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
The public, quite rationally, tends to assign blame to the party in power.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
In his petition, Bonta wrote that the sheriff’s department had planned to assign “12 employees working four days a week, five to seven hours each day” to count the votes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
"They insisted we assign one of their own companies to carry out the agricultural project, otherwise we wouldn't be able to work," she explains.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
If they had half the wits of their pig, they would have fled King’s Landing the night Joff died, before Cersei could assign them some share of blame in her son s death.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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