designation
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The climbing case counts also threaten the nation’s measles-elimination status, a designation the country earned more than two decades ago due to widespread vaccination efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
If, as the account owner, you had a will leaving assets to a third party, it would not override a valid beneficiary designation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to extend or terminate TPS typically has been made at least 60 days before the designation was set to expire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The court held that the designation on file has the final say, regardless of how long ago it was signed or how much had changed since.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
That is a misnomer in that no such title existed, but the role he played was not so different from what the designation implies.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The United States has already applied similar designations to other Ecuadorian gangs, Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Those designations can help direct emergency assistance and other resources to affected communities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Before you do that, an estate-planning attorney should review all of your existing trust and beneficiary designations before making changes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
But these designations do not overcome the environmental hurdles.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Lyell originally intended to employ "–synchronous" for his endings, giving us such crunchy designations as Meiosynchronous and Pleiosynchronous.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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