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The first thing to do on scene was assign a firefighter to walk 360 degrees around the burning structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Years later, after Ruane became a scientist who sometimes has the opportunity to assign official names to newly recognized reptile species, she returned to that old magazine interview.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ellison and longtime Skydance investor, RedBird Capital Partners, then entered into agreements to assign some of their purchase rights to the sovereign wealth funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

That refers to the multiple that investors assign to each dollar of earnings.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

This method assigns average calorie values to each gram of fat, carbohydrates, and protein, then uses those values to calculate the total available energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Blaming AI assigns accountability to something that can’t accept blame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I hear Ms. Brussels assigns mountains of homework.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Participants used their assigned devices for 30 minutes daily during the first two weeks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Much of the matter in these early episodes is assigned to establishing the potato-potahto dichotomy of their hastily entered relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

One Polymarket betting market has assigned a roughly 10% chance that the AI bubble will burst before New Year’s Day, according to the latest numbers available on the platform.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Hospitals have adopted software tools to optimize staffing, with nurses more regularly covering shifts on floors where they aren’t usually assigned, to meet patient ebbs and flows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“There’ll be a nurse assigned to the barracks.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

You can grieve the loss of your childhood home without assigning blame.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

James Blunt immediately took control, assigning players various different roles.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The bill, called the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, works by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

In high school, his English teacher “amused himself by assigning me to play the part of Shylock.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

D.Q. is a very nervous girl who’s always forgetting things, so the teachers keep assigning her extra homework as punishment.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank