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Granted, while earnings expectations are important, investors also have to decide what multiple to assign to them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Each member state must anonymously assign each candidate one of three labels: "encourage," "discourage," or "no opinion."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Although grades won’t be recorded on student transcripts or affect grade-point averages, professors will still assign them internally to track eligibility for scholarships and academic awards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Take a pencil or pen and assign each name to the category to which it belongs by putting a check mark either to the left or to the right of the word.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

After the chief issues us our meal bowls and spoons and assigns us our hut, we have only minutes to settle down before the 6 p.m. bell rings, signaling mealtime.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

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

In the women’s room, she assigned me a locker, then showed me how to clock in and out.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

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

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

I’m not saying you need to like your boss, but assigning her silence any kind of meaning is harming your sanity and happiness.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

After Seabiscuit’s extraordinarily easy win in Tijuana, the Bay Meadows racing secretary had proposed assigning him 136 pounds, but Howard had intercepted him and charmed 3 pounds off of his horse’s impost.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand