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Recent Examples of administrate Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, is a sedative that, when administrated by healthcare professionals, can help patients stay comfortable during routine medical procedures, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Jillian Frankel, People.com, 22 May 2025 The order Trump is promising will direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to tie what Medicare pays for medications administrated in a doctor’s office to the lowest price paid by other countries. Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025 Turkey is the only country that recognizes the breakaway Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, which administrates one-third of the island and has long deployed approximately 35,000 troops there. Paul Iddon, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 Most of that increase was driven by huge increases among Trump voters, 93 percent of whom said the elections were run and administrated somewhat or very well, compared with 21 percent who said so four years ago. Monica Potts, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for administrate
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  • So are the county administrators who manage their benefits.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The dispute began when Nicklaus sold GBI Investors—which had licensed his intellectual property and managed his golf course design business—to Milstein in 2007.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Hoban supervised construction of the porticoes on the north and south sides of the building that Latrobe originally designed in 1807.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The children's parents were simply socializing like normal, the man wrote, not supervising the kids at all.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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  • The municipal panel that oversees the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority endorsed the five-year rate plan in June.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Under that law, citizenship applicants had to be able to speak English but the courts still oversaw the determination of applicants’ civic knowledge.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • Late November is the tentative opening expected for a stand-alone restaurant under construction at 10576 Lebanon Road on property where a Golden Bear Shell station operates, franchise owner Naren Patel said.
    Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In his speech, Van Zile cited an estimate that 60,000 gambling machines are operating in taverns across the state, resulting in millions of dollars in uncollected taxes.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • Hill said his tribe’s gaming operations are highly regulated, unlike bars, and are subject to annual audits and reporting to the state.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The biannual time shift tends to affect peoples’ circadian rhythms — the body’s 24-hour clock — which regulate several physiological processes.
    Hannah Poukish October 27, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • The utility also has detention basins at its Peak Flow Attenuation Facility, located off Scott Hamilton Drive, that are meant to allow the system to handle significant rain events.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Thankfully, our providers handled our pregnancy with so much care and grace knowing our history.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • Their innovation, called retina E-paper, uses nanoparticles to control how light scatters, achieving lifelike color reproduction that can be tuned electrically.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, a New York judge held that Nicklaus controls licensing of his NIL, including for golf course designs, but that Nicklaus Companies owns the trademarks.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation for a vessel meant to revolutionize Beijing’s fleet.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In a statement shared on social media, the EPD confirmed that the investigation remains open and is being conducted by the Massachusetts State Police, the Everett Police Department and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Administrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/administrate. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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