Example Sentences

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Interest rate futures markets had been assigning a significant probability to the Fed lifting rates by three quarters of a point at its next meeting in June.

From Reuters • May 4, 2022

She hoped to pursue a career in music and had been assigning herself relentless practice sessions.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019

Hagen had been assigning this problem in quantum mechanics class and had found that the approximate value approached the exact one more closely for higher energy states.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 13, 2015