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

“But the longer energy prices stay high, the more markets are likely to assign higher probabilities to left tail outcomes and policy mistakes, with rate hikes back on the table now.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

That may make investors willing to assign a higher multiple to Hims, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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

Cortes was directly responsible for much of the carnage in Tenochtitlan, but the war was only a small part of a larger catastrophe for which blame is harder to assign.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann