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delegate

[del-i-git, -gayt, del-i-gayt] / ˈdɛl ɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt, ˈdɛl ɪˌgeɪt /






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Even as the company’s researchers delegate to AI, it’s worth remembering that 0% of this work is being done entirely by AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Nearly 200 nations were due to agree how these landmark findings should guide efforts to protect nature but some countries "did not want to acknowledge them", the French delegate added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

A two-person management committee would assume day-to-day responsibilities, with Overdeck and Siegel each appointing their own delegate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In real life, he prefers to delegate the unpleasant task to an underling.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

“You don’t know how to delegate responsibility,” Corporal Whitcomb informed him sullenly.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Late in the convention, the delegates adopted the additional phrase “or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” in important part to expand the reach of impeachable corruption beyond technical bribery.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

This means it would also be a time of nervousness for delegates as they look around the room with its "empty chairs" following the scale of recent purges within the Party.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Yet it’s unclear how many were able to attend, with some delegates forced to drive hours across the desert from Bahrain or Jordan to reach Riyadh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Top delegates to the Pacific talks will hold a one-day retreat on low-lying Tuvalu, a small island nation laying plans to relocate the population if it is consumed by the ocean.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Lawrence was more surprised to hear his deuton theory come under sustained attack from other European delegates.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Seabright found that the revision made no meaningful difference because those powers could not have been delegated to Essayli in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Stevenson sits on the equality, human rights and civil justice committee as well as the transport committee, and is a substitute member of the delegated powers and law reform committee.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The position is usually delegated to a junior minister, the paper explains.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Humphrey’s made “independent agencies more tempting repositories for delegated powers that the President could not access with quite such ease,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The PAC had launched its own propaganda campaign and I was delegated to make our case wherever possible.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Broadly worded constitutional provisions can be regarded as delegating a degree of authority to apply those provisions to new situations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Wasn’t it true, a juror asked, that he had taken to delegating tasks to subordinates in recent years?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Alter-Ego" may seem capable but "no-one has considered directly delegating the administration of pills" to it, neurologist Rachele Piras said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

These set out guidance on what states can do to enhance credibility and improve transparency, including by delegating investigations to a third party if necessary.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

He was delegating the red rubber bands to Laney when his mom called to him from the kitchen.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser


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