designation
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The two historic paprika-production centres are now recognised with the EU's protected designation of origin status.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Schools will now have to explain the entire designation process when students are first put in the English learner program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The community group co-manages the park with Haringey Council and has helped secure its designation as a site of importance for nature conservation.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The designation would come with honor guards, a 21-gun salute and a formal welcome on the White House South Lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
There was a pair of silver-backed brushes his mother had given him when he was sixteen, engraved with his initials, the abbreviated degree designation of a doctor.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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After a divorce: Divorce is the most obvious trigger — but as Kleinfeldt’s case shows, wanting to update your beneficiary designations isn’t enough.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
But these designations do not overcome the environmental hurdles.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Their designations reflected their use: fighters—also called pursuit planes—were assigned letters F or P: for example, the Chance Vought F4U Corsair or the North American P-51 Mustang.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Vocabulary lists containing designation
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