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admin

[ad-min, ad-min] / ædˈmɪn, ˈæd mɪn /




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Sarah Middlemiss, policy campaigns manager at end-of-life charity Marie Curie, tells Morning Live admin tasks can be particularly difficult when you are grieving.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

A research paper published in Health Affairs, a leading peer-reviewed journal, found that our hospitals blew far more on admin than the hospitals in other rich countries.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The massive success of “Station Eleven” allowed her to quit her admin job to pursue the life of a full-time novelist and television writer, a move she says was terrifying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

For my test, I started thinking up real-life admin tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Seniors have been doing this since my father went here. We take one thing from the admin building to start the year.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Anthropic said it has rolled out features that help IT admins in areas like role-based access, spend controls, usage analytics, audit logging and curated plug-in libraries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Reddit also employs admins who can overrule moderators and delete subreddits.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Website owners and admins who want to block future crawling should add an entry to their site’s robots.txt file and tell it to “Disallow: /”.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

Andrea Vincent, an admin for a Facebook pregnancy support group, told Salon as admins they often find themselves having to monitor misinformation in the group.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

“Maybe a private group to reach out to people? And we can make ourselves admins so that we can approve every person who is invited. Just to make sure.”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro


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