assigning
Example Sentences
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James Blunt immediately took control, assigning players various different roles.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The bill, called the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, works 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 ● Sep. 30, 2026
You could be assigning more intention to your brother-in-law’s actions than exists, says financial therapist Amand Clayman.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
For his students next semester, kids raised in a purportedly “post-literature era,” he’s assigning three 700-page novels, he noted mischievously, books by George Eliot, Ralph Ellison and Kiran Desai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“You will go and deliver a message to your master for me. I am assigning him a commission. Tell me, have you worked for Potter Min long?”
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
