administer
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Even if you are his legal next of kin, it does not obligate you to administer his estate or arrange the funeral.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Judges take an oath to administer justice “without respect to persons.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
In 2002, Congress created the Election Assistance Commission to administer the Help America Vote Act, which assists states in reforming their elections.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
We stood, abeyant, ready to receive what shock fate should administer.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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I know of a nurse in San Francisco who screeches her car to a stop when she spots a person in bodily distress and administers CPR if appropriate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
On Friday, more than 100,000 Muslims performed the weekly Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa, according to the Islamic Waqf, the Jordanian body that administers the site.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
The drop represents nearly 47% of the state’s participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
ETS, which administers testing for teachers, also declined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
“You might be surprised who administers the penalties.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Some passengers were frantically clinging to the hull of the partially submerged vessel, he said, as rescuers administered CPR to a man on a San Francisco police boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Barzar started to put a small amount of his paycheck into the account administered by T. Rowe Price, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The exact number of cases may never even be known, because family disputes are administered via county-level probate courts and there’s no national tracking of these cases.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Since the SIR exercise began on 4 November 2025 across 12 states and federally administered territories, about 60 million names have been removed from the electoral rolls.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
There were to be several sessions of the test administered over the weekend; they made plans for Reynie to attend the very first session.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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“Much of the voting public probably knows little about the process of administering US elections,” it says, “which could allow false narratives to gain traction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In France, non-medical practitioners are prohibited from administering injectable cosmetic treatments.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“But we can’t do that if the states that are administering those programs are allowing those programs to be fleeced by fraudsters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The state reportedly spent about $5 million administering the special election, while outside groups poured nearly $100 million into campaigns surrounding the referendum.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
“I can't take over the job of administering justice,” he replied.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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