How to Use delegation in a Sentence
delegation
noun- He's been chosen to lead the delegation to the conference.
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This is how the delegations would change in the big states.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
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And our delegation that talked to the FDIC last night made that clear.
—CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
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And our delegation that talked to the FDIC last night, made that clear.
—CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
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Dmitriev was part of a delegation to Saudi Arabia in initial rounds of peace talks with the U.S.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
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Pence could then invoke the 12th Amendment, which would kick the vote to the House where each state delegation would be allowed one vote.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
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Learn To Let Go One of the hardest lessons for any entrepreneur to learn is the art of delegation.
—Steve Sidd, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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The fuller truth is that the Court has struck down delegations only twice in our history.
—Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
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Here's how the vote broke down among Arizona's House delegation.
—Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
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None of the members of the Atlanta delegation in the Legislature, who are all Democrats, was there.
—J.d. Capelouto, ajc, 11 Feb. 2022
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The way this would work is that each state—regardless of the size of the state's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives—gets one vote.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The congressman’s resignation set off a scramble in the state to elect a new Utahn to the delegation.
—Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
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His influence held, and the U.S. sent its delegation to Berlin.
—Debbie Sharnak & Yannick Kluch / Made By History, TIME, 30 July 2024
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The Ukrainian delegation was asked to leave the White House after the argument.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
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An Israeli delegation never made it to Cairo for the latest round of talks.
—Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
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In the last weeks of 1969, delegations from tribes across the country journeyed to the island, curious to see what this new nation looked like.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Sep. 2023
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There have been some firsts this Congress, including the first time three Black women are part of the Ohio delegation.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
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Since then, there have been many AfD delegations to Russia.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
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The Ukrainian delegation left the White House soon after.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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Pelosi leads a bipartisan delegation from the House on a trip through the Middle East.
—CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
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Yet, the belief that there are no conditions proves the naïveté of the Argentine delegation.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 16 July 2023
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Here’s a good primer on the hows and whys of delegation from the Corporate Finance Institute.
—Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
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Its House delegation of 52 remains nearly half-again as large as that of second-place Texas, with 38.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
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And then that’s when (comments from the delegation) came from every angle.
—Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
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Steil's tweet sparked a spat among members of the delegation as the lawmakers took the debt ceiling debate online.
—Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
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Notably, the United States has not ratified the treaty, and the country didn’t send a formal delegation to the conference, per the AP.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2025
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Israel agreed to send a delegation, but Hamas had yet to respond –- until now.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
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People can rightly blame me for that and for the consequences of delegation.
—John Danaher, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
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In all three cases, whoever gets the most votes statewide is likely to control the chamber or the delegation.
—Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
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The United States has yet to confirm a formal delegation.
—Annika Hammerschlag, Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2025
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