Example Sentences
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At the time, there was only a single guard assigned to maintain order in the Capitol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
This means that the funding has been made available by the Treasury to the department but had not yet been assigned to a specific project.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Platforms such as Snabbit, Pronto and Urban Company function much like ride-hailing apps -- workers receive bookings online, travel to assigned homes and clock in on their phones.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Those assigned to the early schedule also preserved a larger reduction in fat mass.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
She wasn’t pleased when she found that the young women she’d assigned as sentries had made a cozy bunker for themselves in a pile of mattresses!
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
