consign
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Never mind the state’s environmental laws that consign building projects to purgatory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Austria are three points better off than Scotland and another loss for Scotland would consign them to relegation from the top tier.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
The men alleged that they agreed to consign the model to Heritage for a planned auction sale after the house gave it a value of $800,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
This isn’t to consign Richman to pop’s deep bin of one-hit wonders.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
That He just proposed to sit up there and consign us to hardships one right after another?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Instead the two become friends, and Cora consigns the fling to the realm of her imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
It consigns out-of-form Fakhar Zaman to the bench at least in the short term, while also adding strength to the batting lineup that is so dependent on Babar and Mohammed Rizwan.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
It consigns out-of-form Fakhar Zaman to the bench at least in the short term, while also adding strength to the batting lineup that is so dependent on captain Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
St Johnstone will look to that early miss - and there were suggestions of offside in Colak's goal - as Davidson quickly consigns the experience to history.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022
She commands me with the beck of her hand, while a look consigns me to silence, and yet I have met her so recently.
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Glenwood, Ida
Serkis is certain that George Orwell himself would not have consigned this Animal Farm to Room 101.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Yet here is this singular brilliance, consigned to a small span of years. He places the two side by side in the scales.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
When she was consigned to a sale in the summer of 2021, he bought her with Hidden Brook for $135,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The question of whether Spurs are too good to go down was consigned to the dustbin long ago.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Stannis Baratheon stood grim-faced by the funeral pyre as the lad’s body was consigned to the flames.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Protecting them by consigning them to an inevitable death sentence?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
After he posted a photo of the jacket online, Brown was contacted by Sotheby’s about consigning it for auction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The landscape is particularly difficult for first-time buyers, consigning many to the used car market, Drury said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Clarke acknowledged the questionable morality of such a project, consigning these explorers to an “onerous and uncertain future.”
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
I believe that justice demands that you reject the testimony of these men, consigning their stories to the area of deep doubt.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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