designate
Example Sentences
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City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo spoke briefly and confirmed his support for designating the CAO as the city’s chief financial officer, without impacting the controller’s office.
From Los Angeles Times
"What matters now in Northern Ireland is action, designating MPAs is not the end but the starting place for ensuring our protected areas are properly managed, monitored and enforced."
From BBC
New long-term measures will allow ministers to designate parts of the country as rent control areas by 2027.
From BBC
The Pentagon also threatened to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk -- a label typically reserved for companies from adversary nations.
From Barron's
But in recent months, the payments stopped going into the designated accounts of the investment vehicles, according to documents in London business court.
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