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

Desperate to help his sick dog, one Australian man went down the ultimate ChatGPT research hole, using artificial intelligence to design a personalised experimental treatment and finding top scientists to administer it.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

In Medicare Advantage, private insurers administer federal Medicare benefits for older and disabled Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

He revised his will to transfer all his wealth into a trust named after the year of his birth, which the lawyer and accountant would administer.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

“Even if I make the potion,” Petroc said, “I can’t administer it. D’you understand me? It needs to be heated by dryad fire, and there are—you may have noticed—no dryads on this forsaken island.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell