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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

It’s also important not to assign any meaning to a boss’s actions before talking to them, said Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and author of the book “Jerks at Work.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 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

The method used to assign numbers to letters was not specified, however, and so it’s not entirely clear to whom the number refers.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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

As we get to each house, Liza assigns our tasks, and I cross my fingers to ward off bathrooms and vacuuming.

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

Mr. Greengrass has worked with some top screenwriters, yet unwisely assigned himself sole screenplay duties here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

Police said a dedicated team of officers had been assigned to the case, and were carrying out CCTV, house-to-house and forensic inquires.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Characters disappear, or have their attributes and actions assigned to different characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Eisman took his assigned seat between Greg Lippmann and a fellow who introduced himself as Wing Chau and said that he ran an investment firm called Harding Advisory.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The findings also underscore the risks of assigning identities to extinct animals primarily from their physical appearance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

For his students next semester, kids raised in a purportedly “post-literature era,” he’s assigning three 700-page novels, he noted mischievously, books by George Eliot, Ralph Ellison and Kiran Desai.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The law, if approved, would work by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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 seventh-grade teachers of Stirling Middle School did not put any thought into the important task of assigning field trip partners.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty