administer
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The law established a board of trustees to administer the new institution and defined its membership, powers and responsibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Supporters would argue he is a man who is ready to administer the medicine the nation needs, even if people do not like the taste of it.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Future versions could potentially be taken as an oral tablet, which could make the treatment easier to administer and potentially broaden its use beyond mesothelioma.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
She said the Fed could still hold rates steady rather than administer that medicine, but it would have to explain its decision clearly to markets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
And then they changed on us, like the New Agers, looking for ways they could take what we had and administer it themselves.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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On average, families complete the five-year program with $8,500 in savings, according to Compass Working Capital, one of the HUD partners that administers the program and also provides financial coaching to tenants who participate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Lawton's letter was sent from a company called Equiniti, which administers the pension scheme on behalf of the MoD.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“We will ensure 100% security of all kinds,” said Abhishek Singh, the director general of the National Testing Agency, which administers the exam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
I know of a nurse in San Francisco who screeches her car to a stop when she spots a person in bodily distress and administers CPR if appropriate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
I watch as he puts the thin wafer between her dry lips and administers the cup, murmuring in Latin.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Hickerson and his brother Zack Hickerson, found the actress and Narcan was administered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The other half were administered Shingrix during the same five months in 2018.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
In its 2026 review, the European Food Safety Authority noted that the compounds detected in the rat study could have been impurities already present in the administered sucralose.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
For relatively complicated reasons, some low earners whose employer used what's known as a Net Pay Arrangement pension scheme received less than those whose pension was administered through a Relief at Source scheme.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Her learning issues have a known cause: chemotherapy, administered in high doses, to treat childhood leukemia.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Minnesota are among a small group of states with a decentralized election system, in which individual cities and towns, rather than counties, are responsible for administering ballots.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
But the process of administering justice is far more subjective and messy than we often admit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“We’ve spent a ton of resources in Minneapolis combating fraud, and that includes a very intense look at the leadership and the programs and who’s administering them,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Bystanders - including Craig Bowe, who made three rescue attempts - have been praised for trying to help, including administering CPR to the Rahmans, who were from Ilford.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
As with so many other things, time is the key factor—speed in discovering the deficiency, and speed in administering hormonal substitutes.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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