administer

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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Their benefits erode over time; unchanging income and asset tests reduce the eligible population; and they are expensive to administer.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

While insurers that administer Medicaid benefits have an incentive to police fraud, autism treatment has become a fee-for-service free-for-all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Only then is a doctor authorized to administer the lethal drugs on the date and time the patient has chosen.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

One should bear in mind that there is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous to administer, than to introduce new political orders.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli