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consign

[kuhn-sahyn] / kənˈsaɪn /


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“Athena helps us incentivize them to consign again and we can move things quicker and do it more accurately.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

The men alleged that they agreed to consign the model to Heritage for a planned auction sale after the house gave it a value of $800,000.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2025

This isn’t to consign Richman to pop’s deep bin of one-hit wonders.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2024

To consign Ahmed only to tours of Asia as a second or third spinner feels like a waste.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2024

A three-mile comet!—it was exactly the sort of extravagant notion that the whitecoats sought to consign to the historical dustbin.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Instead the two become friends, and Cora consigns the fling to the realm of her imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

It consigns out-of-form Fakhar Zaman to the bench at least in the short term, while also adding strength to the batting lineup that is so dependent on captain Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2023

St Johnstone will look to that early miss - and there were suggestions of offside in Colak's goal - as Davidson quickly consigns the experience to history.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2022

“Gucci” has won some ardent fans swooning over Lady Gaga’s scenery-chewing, roaring, Haaaaaa-ahhhh-ahhh-ohhhh-ahhaaaaaa-ahhhh-ahhh-ohhhh-ah!!! turn as the story’s aggrieved Lady Macbeth stand-in, which I can appreciate up till the movie consigns her to the background.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2021

With a proud gesture, which rids him of them forever and consigns them to the dust-heap of their sordid narrowness and mediocrity, he stalks to the door.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

That we were consigned to history, that a majority at the general election, let alone a landslide majority, was impossible.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

“Yet here is this singular brilliance, consigned to a small span of years. He places the two side by side in the scales.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

The club suffered the earliest-ever relegation in English football, as defeat at Sheffield United on 22 February consigned them to League One with 13 games to play.

From BBC May 2, 2026

When she was consigned to a sale in the summer of 2021, he bought her with Hidden Brook for $135,000.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

“He says to tell you that you have been consigned to the dung heap of history while people like him ride in their limos down the superhighways of life. Something like that.”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Mr. Booker, then Newark’s mayor, responded with a viral tweet “banning” Mr. O’Brien from Newark airport and consigning him to JFK instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

The landscape is particularly difficult for first-time buyers, consigning many to the used car market, Drury said.

From Barron's Jan. 7, 2026

Clarke acknowledged the questionable morality of such a project, consigning these explorers to an “onerous and uncertain future.”

From Slate Dec. 9, 2025

On paper, bringing together two of the world's biggest artists in a joint show - rather than consigning one to a support slot - should be a guaranteed success.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2025

I believe that justice demands that you reject the testimony of these men, consigning their stories to the area of deep doubt.

From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers




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