Example Sentences

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By the 15th century, British judges were assigning fact-finding work to clerks who were called masters, Amalia Kessler, a Stanford University Law School professor, told him.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2022

Schools were closed, and teachers couldn’t get to the books they were assigning, so they offered PDFs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2020

Having initially rejected the labels others were assigning to her, she started to fear that they were right.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2019

That means we were assigning very different definitions to that broad term “pain.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2011

Dedd realizes she is speaking to the picture of Minerva, as if she were assigning her a part, pinning her down with a handful of adjectives, the beautiful, intelligent, high-minded Minerva.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez