Assign
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In both movies the mentor uses the trick to assign a slightly less talented fellow student for the same role to compete with in order to increase motivation.
Source: Film / Whiplash - In order to keep them from killing you, though, you have to keep hunting the targets that they assign to you and accurately reporting who they are at the end of the day.
Source: Video Game / Manhunter - Rowling was forced to assign a gender to the Harry Potter minor character Blaise Zabini when a translator (into Portuguese?) needed to know in order to translate one of the earlier books.
Source: Pronoun Trouble
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Order and Assign. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/assign/order
Assign & Order. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/assign/order>.
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