deputizing

present participle of deputize
as in appointing
to appoint as one's representative he deputized a local citizen to take charge of the situation while he went for reinforcements

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Recent Examples of deputizing The message being sent is that the FCC is deputizing station owners to take on their network partners. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has taken up the anti-immigrant campaign aggressively, deputizing law-enforcement officers to assist ICE in its roundups. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Asurion made other changes to its executive team in August, naming Cindy Christy as Chief Revenue Officer; appointing Pablo Brizi as Chief Administrative Officer and expanding the role of David Baga, who serves as President of Product, Technology and Customer Experience.
    Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Part of life moving on is appointing a new battalion chief, which was shaping up to be quite a fight, with Bode and Jake going at each other at the funeral.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • However, Congress has passed legislation delegating that power to the president over time.
    SJ Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, the mark of leadership will be managing agile teams of human and AI collaborators—delegating, coordinating, and integrating outputs to achieve greater results than either type of contributor could alone.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Deputizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deputizing. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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