as in assignments
the act of assigning someone to a suitable place (such as a job or class)
Several of our students qualified for placement in the art program.
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Recent Examples of placements
Lopez had 7,821 The board’s two At-Large placements represent the entire county.
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
The national campaign, produced by its creative agency, Sibling Rivalry, will include placements online, social media, broadcast, cable, streaming and print.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
The cost to be featured on the outside of the jacket ranged from $300 to $2,000 depending on placements with the maximum visibility, based on one of his tweets.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
The plea—legally impossible but symbolically potent—highlights the limits of judicial authority over prison placements, the strain of the mental health crises inside the federal system, and the uneasy intersection between acts of political violence and debates about personal autonomy at life’s end.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
The imagery will roll out across Calvin Klein’s social platforms and on large-scale out-of-home placements worldwide.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
All the key placements have sold out, including the presenting sponsorships for studio shows and game broadcasts.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Unexpected placements can create unique moments throughout your home.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
The brand is carefully curating its image internationally through activations, influencer alliances and media placements in titles such as Vogue Singapore.
—Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
The national campaign, produced by its creative agency, Sibling Rivalry, will include placements online, social media, broadcast, cable, streaming and print.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
The cost to be featured on the outside of the jacket ranged from $300 to $2,000 depending on placements with the maximum visibility, based on one of his tweets.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
The plea—legally impossible but symbolically potent—highlights the limits of judicial authority over prison placements, the strain of the mental health crises inside the federal system, and the uneasy intersection between acts of political violence and debates about personal autonomy at life’s end.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
The imagery will roll out across Calvin Klein’s social platforms and on large-scale out-of-home placements worldwide.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
All the key placements have sold out, including the presenting sponsorships for studio shows and game broadcasts.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Unexpected placements can create unique moments throughout your home.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
The brand is carefully curating its image internationally through activations, influencer alliances and media placements in titles such as Vogue Singapore.
—Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for placements
Noun
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This operational discipline enabled the company to pursue projects with tight timelines or unusual spatial constraints, assignments that often commanded premium pricing due to their complexity and precision requirements.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The practice appears most common in Las Vegas, where discretionary tipping can influence room assignments at Strip properties.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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While many states have sought to attract data centers as an economic boon, legislatures and utility commissions were also flooded with proposals to try to protect regular ratepayers from paying to connect data centers to the grid.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Today, that can mean a stair railing sculpted from cast bronze or a chandelier made of 450 shards of selenite (both, by the way, are Henault commissions).—
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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The latest revolt suggests that months later, despite strong results in last week’s elections, the party’s rift over how to confront the President has only deepened.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
11 Nov. 2025
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Two of the Democratic standard-bearers to emerge from last week’s elections—Abigail Spanberger, the incoming governor of Virginia, and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City—have emphasized different sides of these arguments in recent days.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Placements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placements. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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