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I also wouldn’t assign her fibs any intention other than self-preservation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Although grades won’t be recorded on student transcripts or affect grade-point averages, professors will still assign them internally to track eligibility for scholarships and academic awards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

"It makes it harder to assign attribution because if all of your attacks and groups are coming out of Iran, you can pretty much link it to Iran," Wright said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

“The reason I told Mike not to assign you anything is because I’m hoping that you’ll come work with me.”

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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

After our mile warm-up, Coach West explains how we’re going to try a bunch of different things, and she assigns us to groups.

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

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

The Police Ombudsman said when interviewed by its investigators, the police officer initially assigned to the case said she would have obtained the outstanding witness statements if she had kept ownership of the investigation.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Characters disappear, or have their attributes and actions assigned to different characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Because genes are assigned before many lifestyle choices and diseases develop, the technique can sometimes provide stronger clues about cause and effect than an observational study alone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Dasch and Burger were assigned to the officers' quarters in the forward part of the submarine.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The law, if approved, would work by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

The second is whether financing terms show lenders assigning it value separately from the rest of the system.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 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

Because of the many parallels between the background and personality of Perry Smith and the subjects of his study, Dr. Satten feels secure in assigning him to a position among their ranks.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote