delegate
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The court may specify how that disposal will happen, or it may delegate that decision to a person appointed to carry out the order.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
As AI begins building AI, the country that trusts its models most can delegate the most and compound the fastest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
With temperatures dipping around Madrid, "there is a real opportunity now to tackle this fire with some guarantee of success," the central government's delegate in the Spanish capital, Francisco Martin, told reporters late Friday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
In some large counties, Jackson won every delegate at stake as a plurality of convention attendees simply voted for the populist Democrat’s slate.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, but she sat with the wives of delegates and shared the female delegates’ “humiliation and chagrin.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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His remarks drew an ovation from 1,500 guests at Havana’s Palace of Conventions, including delegates from Communist parties stretching from Chile to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Cellphones were banned from the ceremony, bags were closely screened and delegates put through a metal detector by a sizable security force.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kim needed at least two thirds of the 1,000 delegates attending the labor federation’s Oakland convention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The upshot was that instead of a more community-minded gathering of citizens casting ballots for friends and neighbors, delegates were simply voted into the state convention based on whom they would support for the Senate.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
But there would be little time for retrospection over the next few weeks, for the briefing schedule for the three delegates was punishing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Those people said his condition eventually improved and he has delegated responsibilities to his executive team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Lunetta pointed out that hospitals "have repetitive tasks" which "could be delegated to a good robot".
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
And an executive order signed by President Barack Obama in 2012 delegated this authority to the secretary of defense.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
“I don’t see where Harmeet Dhillon has the experience or the normal level of authority that this would be delegated to,” the official said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Some say it was delegated by the gods to Prometheus, the Titan who had sided with Zeus in the war with the Titans, and to his brother, Epimetheus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Similarly to that crawl, L.A.’s will feature a passport system, which involves delegating stamps for every purchase of $10 or more at each stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Supervision of an agency is necessary to comply with the private nondelegation doctrine, a constitutional principle that prohibits Congress and agencies from delegating authority to private parties without sufficient government oversight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Leo has denounced the race for AI in the military field, saying that "delegating decisions concerning the life and death of human beings to machines" is a "destructive spiral".
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
"Militaries adopt AI to speed up processes such as target identification. But delegating life-and-death decisions to machines poses profound ethical and human rights risks," said Patrick Wilcken of Amnesty International.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
This morning Dad has taken the liberty of delegating tasks through passive-aggressive Post-it notes hidden like Easter eggs all over the house.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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