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Humans can discuss responsibilities and deliberately assign them, but a bee colony has no central planner.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

In Donald Trump’s first term, the president called an aide into his study off the Oval Office to assign a new target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

I do not assign genders to letter writers, but I do try to address all the options available to couples.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

After the fact, seismologists study measurements of the ground’s movement taken by seismographs and evaluate the damage done by the quake to decide what magnitude to assign to the event.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

She assigns priority levels—critical, important and optional—to indicate what information is essential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The nanozymes hypothesis assigns several important functions to natural MN-zymes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

A VPN with an American IP address may be a virtual server hosted outside the United States, but it still assigns users a U.S.-based IP address.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

He assigns Apple’s stock a neutral rating and a $270 price target.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

After the chief issues us our meal bowls and spoons and assigns us our hut, we have only minutes to settle down before the 6 p.m. bell rings, signaling mealtime.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

"Every person who was brought in was assigned a number, which was written on their forehead," said Saif Hamza, who was released after questioning.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Participants who took the supplement also showed stronger grip and reduced sensitivity to pain, while the group had far fewer dropouts than those assigned to a digital physiotherapy program.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

Walsh started at the firm in 1992 as an intern and spent his first job assigned to the copy machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The Orange County public defender’s office has not yet assigned her an attorney, the department said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Jakob said that Willa came here. She said she just wanted to see him. Told him that she had been assigned to pack up the embassy in Warsaw.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Instead, she is assigning the man on her left, Shigeto Nose, to temporarily carry out her role.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Boll believes Germany “banned” the film by not assigning it an age rating, fearing it could incite violence, making it unfit for German theatrical release.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Harrigan wrote that “the split is especially desirable in assigning fairer immediate value to the studio and parks businesses.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

General Halleck had shuffled the generals at Pittsburg Landing after the battle there, assigning Grant to an ineffectual position as assistant commander and taking command of the field himself.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt