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Recent Examples of assignee The result that the purchaser at the judicial sale ends up only as an assignee of the distributional rights, but without governance rights, is the result that will ordinarily be obtained outside of bankruptcy too. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025 As a mere assignee of Addington's interest, BAL did not gain Addington's governance rights. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025 The Senate bill would appear to revive incentives for benefit assignees, such as water restoration companies or roof contractors — not just policyholders — to sue insurers. Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025 After all, Qualcomm recently surpassed IBM as the number-two patent assignee in the U.S.. Anshel Sag, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 The data looks at the assignees for both regular utility and design patents and was limited to assignees that received at least 10 patents within the year. al, 22 June 2023 Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC, assignee. Eunice Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2015 The licenses safeguarded Arm's rights and expectations by prohibiting assignment without Arm's consent, regardless of whether a contemplated assignee had its own Arm licenses. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2022 The trust claims to be the assignee of a litigation financing company that was owed millions of dollars by Rittenhouse's first attorney, John Pierce of Los Angeles, and had obtained judgments against him. Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assignee
Noun
  • Other city officials were present at the ceremony, including Library Advisory Board delegate John Warren and Stanton Councilmember Gary Taylor.
    Staff report, Oc Register, 3 June 2025
  • Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Eight oil-producing nations of the OPEC+ alliance could hike output by as much as 411,000 barrels per day in July, two OPEC+ delegates told CNBC, continuing a rapid unwinding of voluntary production cuts.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Billboard has reached out to the group’s representatives for comment.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 1 June 2025
  • The 11-year-old company sends representatives to talk to store owners in person about getting on the platform rather than trying to reach them online, Feng said.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • The deputies that fired their weapons are placed on administrative assignment, Codd said.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 1 June 2025
  • The White House deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers' dime.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • The writer’s death on June 3 was confirmed by his husband, Michael Carroll, and agent Bill Clegg, The New York Times, The Guardian and NBC News report.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • These agents learn from interactions, adapting responses for a more human-like experience, reducing wait times and ensuring consistent service quality. CNN reports that tech companies are introducing early AI agent offerings.
    Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • If any inmates were denied parole because of the faulty tests, they could be owed a new hearing before the parole board, said attorneys representing inmates affected by the defective drug tests.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
  • Separately, attorneys for the families of victims of the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 filed a civil lawsuit under a different provision of the law concerning unfair trade practices.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • New Brazil national team manager Carlo Ancelotti can see his side confirm its spot at the FIFA 2026 World Cup this week.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Spoelstra was voted the best head coach in the NBA (69 percent of vote), best manager/motivator of people (37 percent) and the head coach with the best defensive schemes (23 percent) in the last survey of general managers ahead of the 2024-25 season.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025

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“Assignee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignee. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.

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