assessment

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Recent Examples of assessment Goldman also asked for a detailed assessment of the jail’s conditions both before and after the ICE detainees were taken in, outlining how BOP is adjusting staffing schedules and resource allocation to accommodate them. Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025 While there are several risk assessment tools available to patients and physicians, the breast cancer risk assessment tool (BCRAT) is one of the most common, Fox News Digital previously reported. Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025 Bonnie Glaser, managing director of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund, told Newsweek the report's assessment of Taiwan underestimated its value to U.S. strategic interests in the region. Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025 In the spring of 2022, longtime Astros star Jose Altuve offered a surprising assessment of Jeremy Peña, the rookie shortstop who was replacing Correa. Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for assessment
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Noun
  • Billions more help retain tax cuts for small and medium businesses while military contractors can expect billions more in weapons spending.
    Jim Sergent, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • The deduction provisions are not permanent but were written to expire after the 2028 tax year.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Yzerman’s appraisal of the market is revealing, though.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 29 June 2025
  • Problem #2: Irrelevant Feedback Only 14% of employees believe their performance appraisal provides relevant and meaningful feedback, despite feedback being a cornerstone of leadership development curricula and an essential leadership skill.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • This systematic evaluation approach distinguishes startups that merely use AI from those that truly innovate with it.
    Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Then, in 2023, Cook’s son James and a researcher named Ian Mertz blew it wide open, devising an algorithm that solved the tree evaluation problem using much less space than anyone thought possible.
    Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Mexico exported just over one million head of cattle to the United States in 2024, according to official estimates.
    AFP, Fortune, 10 July 2025
  • Their portfolio also includes the venerable Slieve Donard, long the must-stay spot for golfers visiting Northern Ireland’s Royal County Down, by many estimates, the world’s greatest golf course period.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Her job was, in her estimation, a relic of a different time — the business no longer relies on broadcast network casting directors to discover talent through global searches and talent holding deals.
    Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
  • More than 100,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year, according to estimations by the American Cancer Society (ACS).
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The Chartered Accountant path relies heavily on examinations and a multiyear internship period—no college credit hours required at all.
    Bryce Welker, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Get that husband of yours to his doctor for a thorough physical and neurological examination.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 July 2025

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