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am assigning

  • present progressive
    of assign (1st person singular).
    assign
    verb (used with object)
    to give or allocate; allot.

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“I am assigning a Marine General Officer and senior attorney, both with extensive combat experience, to head up an internal Preliminary Inquiry into the matter,” he said.

From Time ● Jan. 12, 2012

“You will go and deliver a message to your master for me. I am assigning him a commission. Tell me, have you worked for Potter Min long?”

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

First, I am assigning the Director of the National Security Agency to coordinate all efforts at defending against and mini- mizing the effects of the current crisis.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

I manage always to help it with various alms and expedients, and at present I am assigning it two toneladas for the chalices and ornaments, which sell at two hundred pesos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

But I am assigning too many motives of self-improvement to reading.

From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie