designed

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Trusts are designed to manage assets, distribute income, prevent beneficiaries from getting too much money at one time, avoid probate and plan for any incapacity of the beneficiary.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

That law was designed to encourage presidents to turn over their records to the federal government.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

Over the years I’ve grown accustomed to comments about how “wild” the spaceship-like buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer must have looked, how “alienating” the car-centric city must have been.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

There is no fixed pathway; the layout is deliberately designed to be, as contemporary museumspeak puts it, “nonhierarchical.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Because of how I was designed, how I was coded, what I was supposed to do.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix