1.   Its roots rest in a past when editors would assign reporters to cover topics and their work would become an index of history written on the run.

2.   Not that any editor assigned the case such significance, mind you.

3.   The editor assigned a young staffer, Margaret Mitchell, to coach her on writing.

4.   To supplement its method, Snap has human editors assign keywords to specific documents to give them added weight.

5.   When I was a rookie sportswriter at a big-city paper, my editor assigned me to write a story about the football spikers.