administer

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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Desperate to help his sick dog, one Australian man went down the ultimate ChatGPT research hole, using artificial intelligence to design a personalised experimental treatment and finding top scientists to administer it.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Their benefits erode over time; unchanging income and asset tests reduce the eligible population; and they are expensive to administer.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

In 2017, 10-year-old Milly Main was recovering well from a stem cell transplant at the children's hospital when she picked up an infection from an intravenous line used to administer drugs.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

After Chella died, he was moved into her corner, the corner that Kuttappen imagined was the corner of his home that Death had reserved to administer her deathly affairs.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy