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administer

[ad-min-uh-ster] / ædˈmɪn ə stər /




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“Those who administer our elections should never fear for their safety while carrying out their essential duties,” they said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“Those who administer our elections should never fear for their safety while carrying out their essential duties.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

My earlier analysis pointed to the three bulwarks against attempted election subversion—the state and local governments that administer elections, the courts that protect rights, and the American people who are democracy’s ultimate safeguard.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

We also would have to administer a standardized test in certain grades, if we were going to open an actual school, and maintain annual records about student attendance and immunizations.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

And then they changed on us, like the New Agers, looking for ways they could take what we had and administer it themselves.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

In Maine, which is among the states most dependent on heating oil, the state’s housing authority, aka MaineHousing, administers the federal Low-Income Energy Assistance Program.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

The governor’s action will allow the California Air Resources Board, the state’s top air agency which also administers the cap-and-invest program, to begin the public process to link the two state’s markets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Lawton's letter was sent from a company called Equiniti, which administers the pension scheme on behalf of the MoD.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance, a public agency that provides and administers the benefits, says changes over the past few decades have helped it recover from a deficit and build a $1.2 billion surplus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

“You might be surprised who administers the penalties.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

The therapeutic vaccine, called intismeran, is a groundbreaking new approach that makes use of the patient’s own tumor to create a personalized treatment, which is then administered alongside Keytruda, Merck’s blockbuster cancer drug.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The new $25 million antifraud program will be administered by the Justice Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

ETS, a nonprofit assessment organization, helps manage and provide testing-related services for students enrolled in California public schools, including the required Smarter Balanced tests administered in spring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

When the researchers administered GMPs to mice with the disorder, the cells restored the animals' ability to fight bacterial infection.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mrs. Richardson had wanted to be a journalist her entire life, long before the aptitude tests their guidance counselor had administered in high school.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

He said the person administering his interview didn’t realize he was a baseball player until she asked who his employer was.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Padilla stressed that the new Senate observers would have no role in administering elections or handling ballots.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Most of the time, little information is available to the public about the people administering the lethal injection, as the states do not usually share what training they have had.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Major medical groups condemn lethal injections so the people administering the drugs often have limited medical qualifications, experts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

As with so many other things, time is the key factor—speed in discovering the deficiency, and speed in administering hormonal substitutes.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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