administer
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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
The root of the dispute is Paragraph 5, which says Iran will make arrangements to restore shipping through the strategic waterway and then work with Oman to determine how to administer it in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
During that visit, carers help her into bed, provide her evening meal and administer night-time medication, including sleeping tablets.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
After Chella died, he was moved into her corner, the corner that Kuttappen imagined was the corner of his home that Death had reserved to administer her deathly affairs.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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The Essequibo region comprises more than two thirds of Guyana, which currently administers it.
From Barron's ● May 6, 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
Consider that Denmark, which administers Greenland, an autonomous territory Trump has also threatened to invade, can qualify for the tournament in a European playoff that will take place later this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
I watch as he puts the thin wafer between her dry lips and administers the cup, murmuring in Latin.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Those vaccines have substantial evidence for safety in scientific literature, including when administered separately or together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
It is almost always fatal once symptoms appear in humans, but treatment administered before this point can be successful.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
And despite the rules stating that a challenge from behind with studs-on-calf contact and a level of force should be a red card — no card was administered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
To ease the dying man, he administered a dose of calomel and placed loaves of hot bread around his body.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh were among those in attendance on Friday, with the former administering the oath of office to Warsh.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
MSD says the jab offers "meaningful benefits" for hospitals by reducing the time spent administering the drug, freeing up time for other clinical tasks and potentially reducing the pressure on NHS resources.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Cantwell urged Kennedy to require contractors administering WISeR to respond to standard claims within 72 hours and urgent claims within 24 hours.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
Recognizing this, some oncologists have begun administering drugs with restraint rather than abandon, aiming to keep the cancer in check rather than creating conditions that predispose to the rapid growth of resistant cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
These men were in charge of administering the prisons on a day-to-day basis.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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