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Moody’s rates the bank Aa2, while S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings assign it A+ ratings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
One proposal to promote evaluator independence would be for regulators to assign auditors from a licensed pool instead of having the labs hire their own auditors directly.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Years later, after Ruane became a scientist who sometimes has the opportunity to assign official names to newly recognized reptile species, she returned to that old magazine interview.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Ellison and longtime Skydance investor, RedBird Capital Partners, then entered into agreements to assign some of their purchase rights to the sovereign wealth funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
For the Two against Three rhythm, divide the class into two groups and assign the Two-beat rhythm line to one half and the Three-beat rhythm line to the other half.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
AMD plans to sell Taalas technology inside systems alongside its Instinct GPUs, and a lender financing the whole rack reveals nothing about what it assigns to the model-specific part.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
With the U.S. leading in research, technology and branding, it assigns production of sophisticated components to its skilled workers and sends intermediate goods to Mexico or Canada for finishing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
“Mr. Owens assigns a lot of homework, huh?”
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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Some teleworking is allowed, but employees must be working in a location from which they are able to easily return to their assigned work location within normal commute time, the audit said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
He left the airline last year before re-emerging in February as a new recruit at the rapidly expanding Dubai carrier where he would be assigned, several times, to the most sensitive route in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The remains have been assigned to Homo erectus and P. robustus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Routine tasks - assigned on a rota 24 hours a day, seven days a week - included cooking, cleaning, ironing, shopping, looking after Brain's young daughter, and walking his dog.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
He was assigned to a listening post, and later he worked for the Ministry of Propaganda.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
James Blunt immediately took control, assigning players various different roles.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“My guess is the market is assigning this a low probability, but the consequences are large enough that it deserves some premium.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The bill, called the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, works 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 ● Sep. 30, 2026
Poet entertained the boy by assigning shoe types.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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