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In other words, identical behavior did not lead people to assign the same level of consciousness to humans and machines.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Moody’s rates the bank Aa2, while S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings assign it A+ ratings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign, whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee, warned Monday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Ellison and longtime Skydance investor, RedBird Capital Partners, then entered into agreements to assign some of their purchase rights to the sovereign wealth funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender to both the floor waxer and the typewriter.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

This method assigns average calorie values to each gram of fat, carbohydrates, and protein, then uses those values to calculate the total available energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Federal Communications Commission assigns and oversees licenses for radio and television broadcast frequencies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

She was 14 when she met 18-year-old “Sam,” a pseudonym Hackney assigns him in the memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

After our mile warm-up, Coach West explains how we’re going to try a bunch of different things, and she assigns us to groups.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

We then manually checked that each report had been assigned to the correct group, leaving us with 300 unique incidents.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The new wraps slowed lines down because some workers struggled to roll them quickly, so now one person is assigned to wrap assembly during peak hours, primarily at busy locations, McConnell said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Former school board member David Tokofsky said that Franklin used to have two assigned officers out of concern for keeping the campus safe from the influence of a notorious local gang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

A government spokeswoman on Monday said they had started to be assigned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

His stomach was full of sandwich and Mr. Grayson hadn’t assigned any homework.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

James Blunt immediately took control, assigning players various different roles.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

They ended up splitting the class and assigning more students to other teachers, she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The bill, called the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, works by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Traders have dramatically repriced BOJ expectations, now almost fully counting on a rate hike at the Sept. 17-18 meeting and assigning high odds to another by year’s end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

After Seabiscuit’s extraordinarily easy win in Tijuana, the Bay Meadows racing secretary had proposed assigning him 136 pounds, but Howard had intercepted him and charmed 3 pounds off of his horse’s impost.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand