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Rather, they are rethinking the role that digital offerings play in their operations and nudging employees to assign higher priority to customer service, not just rely on kiosk ordering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

I also wouldn’t assign her fibs any intention other than self-preservation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 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

“Don’t take too long, or I’ll need to assign some extra art homework just for you!” she teases.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

She was 14 when she met 18-year-old “Sam,” a pseudonym Hackney assigns him in the memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

At the end of each class, the teacher assigns work we’ll have to do at home.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

There were seats assigned by state and indicated by tall signs on poles, there was a host of precisely timed and deeply forgettable speeches by elected officials, and, of course, there was a keynote speaker.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Police Ombudsman said when interviewed by its investigators, the police officer initially assigned to the case said she would have obtained the outstanding witness statements if she had kept ownership of the investigation.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

In May, the California Supreme Court ordered the attorney general’s office to respond to the arguments and assigned the case to a superior court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Key to lofty valuations being assigned to the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI is the assumption of massive growth—growth that can only occur if more data centers are opened to build and fuel AI’s expanse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The numbers for these future aviation regiments had already been assigned.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

A prospective study follows patients forward in time, while an observational study tracks what happens without assigning participants to different treatments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Traders have dramatically repriced BOJ expectations, now almost fully counting on a rate hike at the Sept. 17-18 meeting and assigning high odds to another by year’s end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The second is whether financing terms show lenders assigning it value separately from the rest of the system.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

What doesn’t change is our impulse to explain complicated social and economic changes by assigning a personality to an entire generation.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The remainder of the morning was taken up with bookkeeping matters such as passing out supplies and assigning seats.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg