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It cannot tell me what level of risk I should assign to that fact.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

"It makes it harder to assign attribution because if all of your attacks and groups are coming out of Iran, you can pretty much link it to Iran," Wright said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

In the straw poll, each council member was required anonymously assign each candidate one of three labels: "encourage," "discourage," or "no opinion."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

I had heard Mr. Rochester assign him an apartment below—what brought him here!

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

That number is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s “heat-sensitivity score,” a rating a computer assigns based on medical conditions and medications that could make someone more susceptible to heat.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

He served as secretary to the government of the federation, the office that assigns agencies their space and status, under Tinubu's predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Each quarter, S&P Dow Jones Indices begins with the full S&P Small Cap 600 index and then assigns three factor scores to each company:

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

And it all comes into your ears, on audio, in a grinding singsong that assigns no particular weight to any particular moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

When I can find no more surfaces to wipe and have finally exhausted the supply of rooms, Maddy assigns me to do the kitchen floor.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Instead, the pair had fun shopping and took a scenic boat tour in nearby Winter Park, Fla. Wales was somewhat disappointed by the motel-like resort they were assigned, but added, “it wasn’t the worst place.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Around 300 firefighters were assigned to the incident Monday afternoon, a number that is expected to more than double this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

A 2012 randomized controlled trial sponsored by the federal government found that children assigned to Head Start showed transient improvements in language and literacy during preschool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Toby went to the guidance counselor and asked if he could be assigned to another student.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Statutory law is assigning the loss at the same moment the market is writing itself out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

It is assigning no value whatsoever to these environmental benefits, thereby ignoring the very health concerns the agency was created to address.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026

Analysts have become more optimistic about Southwest in recent months, with those assigning the company’s stock “buy” or “hold” ratings slowly becoming the majority.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Boll believes Germany “banned” the film by not assigning it an age rating, fearing it could incite violence, making it unfit for German theatrical release.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

D.Q. is a very nervous girl who’s always forgetting things, so the teachers keep assigning her extra homework as punishment.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank