Michaela Coel

We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.

Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

American Poet

Jill Lepore

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

American Historian

Mariette Hartley

I don't think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren't such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn't given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.

American Actress

John Hagel III

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

American Businessman

Murray Gell-Mann

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

American Physicist

Victor J. Glover

God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we've grown with our four daughters.

Ralph Marston

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

American Writer

Mac Thornberry

If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.

American Politician

Linda Tripp

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

American Celebrity

Used when giving tasks in professional settings like workplaces or schools.

Professional Context

Often used to command or instruct someone to carry out a specific job or task.

Directive Verb

Implies organization or arranging ahead of time, perfect for discussing schedules.

Planning Implications

Highlights who or what is responsible for an action or situation.

Causality Emphasis

Shows a neutral and unbiased decision in assigning blame or credit.

Impartial Tone

In computing, this is a precise operation involving variables and values.

Computing Specificity

Different programming languages have their own syntax for assign operations.

Programming Languages

Indicates a legal action, often involving official documents and contracts.

Legal Authority

Such legal transfers are typically permanent and not easily reversed.

Permanent Decision

 We can clearly identify features of the wave pattern as a whole, most importantly, its wavelength, which is the distance between two neighboring peaks, or two neighboring valleys. But we can't assign it a single position. It has a good probability of being in lots of different places.

What is the Heisenberg...

 wore the same T-shirts for three nights. After male volunteers were randomly assigned to smell either one of the worn shirts, or a new unworn one, saliva samples showed an increase in testosterone in those who had smelled a shirt worn by an ovulating woman. Such a testosterone boost

The science of...

 This won't allow us to represent powers of ten, but it's perfect for the counting system that uses powers of two, otherwise known as binary. In binary, each position has double the value of the previous one, so we can assign our fingers values of one, two, four, eight,

How high can you count...

 of prime numbers. So, to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of finding infinite beds for infinite buses of infinite weary travelers, the night manager assigns every current guest to the first prime number, 2, raised to the power of their current room number.

The Infinite Hotel...

 when I get really psyched out about that is don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case

Your elusive creative...

 All of these are consuming questions. And they're going to answer these questions, whether or not it means not doing all the work I assign and not getting a good grade in my courses. And indeed they should. These are important questions to answer. Work.

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 detective who gets assigned a strange new partner a robot i've always wanted a robot partner and now through the magic of text to speech and radio drama hello i can finally have one my name is natalie i'm here to help you host the show hi

The Battle for the Soul...

 Now, amazingly, the brain is really good at taking in these signals and extracting patterns and assigning meaning, so that it takes this inner cosmos and puts together a story of this, your subjective world. But here's the key

Can we create new senses...

 and exploratory behavior plus their reactions to various unfamiliar situations provides deep clues into the behavioral tendencies of these potential soldier rats just as the army test soldiers to assign them the regiments

Finding landmines using...

 having a name may not be as unnatural as it seems nice disco and I know it I'm disco and I know it wild parrots have been shown to assign

Assign

To give someone a particular job or role.

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To decide on a time or a place for something.

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To attribute something to someone.

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To give a value to a variable.

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To transfer rights or property.

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