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administer

[ad-min-uh-ster] / ædˈmɪn ə stər /




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Meanwhile, other manufacturers are improving the warming capabilities for their window heat pumps, says Li Ling, a lead engineering consultant at VEIC, an organization that is helping to administer five window heat pump pilot programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

My earlier analysis pointed to the three bulwarks against attempted election subversion—the state and local governments that administer elections, the courts that protect rights, and the American people who are democracy’s ultimate safeguard.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

We also would have to administer a standardized test in certain grades, if we were going to open an actual school, and maintain annual records about student attendance and immunizations.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The California Housing Finance Agency would administer the program, including setting interest rates for the loans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

In Maine, which is among the states most dependent on heating oil, the state’s housing authority, aka MaineHousing, administers the federal Low-Income Energy Assistance Program.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 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

The Stacys and other families filed formal requests in September 2023 to the attorney general’s office, then led by Merrick Garland, which administers the fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

He grooms them, administers their daily doses of medicine by hand and recognizes their individual personalities.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

His wife, Rosita, administers first aid to migrants.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

ETS, a nonprofit assessment organization, helps manage and provide testing-related services for students enrolled in California public schools, including the required Smarter Balanced tests administered in spring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

When administered to mice, the progenitor cells established themselves in the bone marrow and other locations responsible for blood cell production.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Court of Appeal previously heard there was no direct evidence of how the Dalmane was administered and that a post-mortem examination found a therapeutic dose.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Because the treatment needs to reach the central nervous system, it is administered through an injection into the spinal canal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

But once you changed any of those variables — the material on the test, or the situation in which it was administered — the kinds of cheating would change as well.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Padilla stressed that the new Senate observers would have no role in administering elections or handling ballots.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The controller is the state’s fiscal watchdog, responsible for auditing government agencies, administering payroll for state employees and reuniting abandoned assets with their owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Within minutes of administering vitamin B6, Ann's seizure activity stopped.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

That agreement promised to provide relief from sanctions on oil sales, grant access to Iran’s frozen assets and acknowledge a role for Tehran administering the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for opening the waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Wasn’t she taken away from you and taken to the hospital at Pawhuska? Weren’t you administering insulin to her?”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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