assign

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In his petition, Bonta wrote that the sheriff’s department had planned to assign “12 employees working four days a week, five to seven hours each day” to count the votes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Some organisms assign different amino acids to certain codons, some use more than the standard 20 amino acids, and multiple codons can correspond to the same amino acid.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

"They insisted we assign one of their own companies to carry out the agricultural project, otherwise we wouldn't be able to work," she explains.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

When we assign deeper intentions to a person’s actions, we might unnecessarily hurt our own feelings.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender to both the floor waxer and the typewriter.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris