administer
Example Sentences
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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Typically, they hire benefits firms or insurance companies just to administer their plans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
He revised his will to transfer all his wealth into a trust named after the year of his birth, which the lawyer and accountant would administer.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Their benefits erode over time; unchanging income and asset tests reduce the eligible population; and they are expensive to administer.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026
It had been willed to an heir who was too young to administer it.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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