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assess

[uh-ses] / əˈsɛs /




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Three of its jobs were for “content security” to assess AI tools and guard against piracy, watermarking and rights-protection work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

The company said it would assess the plan when the reimbursement arrangements were available.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

The team also could not assess whether hair grew back after patients stopped taking the medication.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

The Bank of Japan is widely expected to leave monetary policy unchanged at its two-day meeting ending Friday, as policymakers assess the effects of its latest rate increase, which brought the policy rate to 1%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

My mother went over to school to personally lay eyes on the kid, wanting to assess what kind of threat he posed.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

A recent analysis from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, an independent nonprofit that assesses the value of medical treatments, concluded that GLP-1 drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound are cost-effective.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

Switzerland's biggest bank, which is among the world's largest wealth managers, produces the annual UBS Global Wealth Report, which assesses personal wealth trends.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

BBC Sport England reporter Alex Howell assesses how the players performed in Boston on Tuesday - and you can see how BBC Sport readers rated them at the bottom of the page too.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

This will boost his chances when the lender assesses his loan application.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

Mom assesses a shriveled turnip, squeezing as she rotates it.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

This study was not completed as a clinical trial associated with an application and has not been assessed by FDA for product approval for stated indications.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Direct damage to residential buildings came in at almost half of the assessed total at $9.3 billion.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

He was released on bail until 18 September and police said he was "assessed as not being fit for interview".

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Sue Gordon, who served as principal deputy director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, said most of the data Trump will release has already been assessed by the intelligence community.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Velia held out her slim arm and I assessed the damage.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Unlike the other peptides, there are some studies assessing its clinical effectiveness; however, they were all conducted in the ’80s and ’90s, and the FDA described the results as “inconclusive and at best preliminary.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

But with AI-generated answers to queries reducing clicks to outside websites, Reddit executives are assessing what the upside is of continuing to feed its content to Google, said the people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

In its initial disclosure of the hack on 16 July, external, Hugging Face said it was still assessing whether any customer or partner data was affected and would contact affected parties if necessary.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

To use a recent example operating on a similar blockbuster scale, Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” did this particularly well, assessing humanity and movies together against the backdrop of Spielberg’s favorite themes.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Quickly assessing the situation, Lincoln ran back to his carriage and sent the driver to fetch his friend Dr. D. W. Bliss.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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