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
Most AI architectures have room for both open and closed models and often assign them different functions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
“With fifty students, sir, and my after-school tutoring, I can’t spend much time helping him. I grade his practice exams and assign him extra problems every day, but he doesn’t seem to be mastering it.”
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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