How to Use reassign in a Sentence

reassign

verb
  • Eight of the initial group have quit or asked to be reassigned.
    Bhopi Dhall and Saurajit Kanungo, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Trump left the post and reassigned it to Trump Jr. less than five months later, on June 7.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Levesque was later moved out of the bomb squad — reassigned but not fired.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • The Sharks reassigned Scott Sabourin back to the Barracuda.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Apparently, there was a change in the type of plane and our seats were reassigned.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The court ruled that Scott was within his right to reassign cases.
    Gregory Lemos and Kay Jones, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Integral shut down last spring, and the courts reassigned its wards to other guardians.
    Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The two sources said some engineers have been reassigned.
    Hyunjoo Jin, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Who decided to take his wife from him one day and reassign her to serve as the wife of an executive in Rome?
    Matthew Jordan, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was the patron of dozens of charities, jobs that the king will have to reassign to other royals.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Since then, both brothers have been reassigned to new roles with no contact with students.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 13 Feb. 2024
  • If an airline doesn't use the slots it's been granted at such high-demand airfields, the FAA can revoke and reassign them.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Bordeleau, 22, began the season with the Sharks and had two points in six games before he was reassigned to the Barracuda on Oct. 29.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In 1771, he was reassigned to one of Mount Vernon’s plantations.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • The officials will reassign workers from desk roles to positions in the field.
    New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In the past, a member unhappy with her Core group could easily ask to be reassigned.
    Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Only one has been reassigned so far, Worley said: the major for the Southern district.
    Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The bill would change the BWWB from a nine-member to a seven-member board and reassign the authority to appoint board members.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Members of the original A.I. ethics team were either reassigned to product teams or were laid off.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Both deputies have been reassigned from field duty, according to the statement.
    USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • He was reassigned to the fleet division while on restricted duty and was still working there when he was fired.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The outlet added that the athlete had also been reassigned to the minors earlier on Monday.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Six players were reassigned to minor-league camp Sunday, but none were expected to break camp with the major-league team.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Already, the major in command of the Southern District was reassigned and replaced.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The panel threw out Nelson’s sentence and directed the chief judge to reassign the case to a different judge for a new sentencing.
    Silas Morgan, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That report said that many of those are being laid off or reassigned because AI is replacing them.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
  • With enough notice, the team can try their best to reassign your party to a larger table rather than squeezing a too-big group into a too-small table.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Some employees were reassigned while others were laid off and pointed to the Spotify job board.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The rest of the Martin Luther King library's staff will be reassigned to other libraries during construction.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Detectives like Galindo were reassigned, and the squad faded away.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023

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