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as in mandate
the granting of power to perform various acts or duties
the delegation by the president to the secretary of state of complete control of the nation's foreign policy
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Recent Examples of delegation
Hamas said on Tuesday night that Israel failed to assassinate Al-Hayya and the negotiations delegation.
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Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
The City of Encinitas recently concluded a meaningful week-long Sister City exchange with a student delegation from Amakusa, Japan, marking another milestone in a relationship that has connected the two communities since 1988, according to a news release.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
The kingdom sent a senior delegation to China last month, aiming to boost investment and trade in both countries.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
And the region, the neighborhood where this attack happened, is a residential neighborhood where the location was known by your reporters and other people around Doha very openly where the talks were taking place with the Hamas delegation.
—Leila Fadel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
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Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
The City of Encinitas recently concluded a meaningful week-long Sister City exchange with a student delegation from Amakusa, Japan, marking another milestone in a relationship that has connected the two communities since 1988, according to a news release.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
The kingdom sent a senior delegation to China last month, aiming to boost investment and trade in both countries.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
And the region, the neighborhood where this attack happened, is a residential neighborhood where the location was known by your reporters and other people around Doha very openly where the talks were taking place with the Hamas delegation.
—Leila Fadel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delegation
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The critics will point out the large English contingent as a case of the rich getting richer courtesy of the Champions League prize money, a legitimate gripe given the Premier League already operates on a different financial playing level from their European counterparts.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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TikTok boasts around 170 million US users, many of them young people – a contingent that offered significantly more support to the Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 election than that segment of the population has in recent years.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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Logging later resumed under an archaic mandate and approval processes that a past Cal Fire director and others say still violates key laws such as CEQA and works at cross purposes to the missions of other agencies.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Last month, the UK government dropped its mandate requiring Apple to provide backdoor access to Americans' iCloud data.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
13 Sep. 2025
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Educational accreditation bodies, healthcare management organizations and professional associations often welcome collaborations that advance industry standards.—
Kiyoshi Oka,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Controversial pastor David Jang's disciples are pursuing accreditation for a new college as the sect's flagship school, Olivet University—accused in lawsuits of racketeering and trafficking foreign students—faces the prospect of losing its degree-granting status.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The station stated that the volunteer acted without authorization and in direct violation of Radio Boise policies by making those comments on social media.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Sep. 2025
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In 2021, at the height of the pandemic, Kennedy petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke authorization of COVID-19 vaccines and refrain from approving any future COVID-19 vaccines.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Delegation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delegation. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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