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The phrase "assigned themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to individuals who have taken it upon themselves to allocate a task or responsibility without external assignment.
Example: "The team members assigned themselves specific roles to ensure the project was completed efficiently."
Alternatives: "took on themselves" or "designated for themselves".
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Many Europeans assigned themselves roles in the underground in retrospect.
Others had assigned themselves to chores no one else had thought of yet.
They are free to paint their own picture with the sizable palette they have assigned themselves.
Racism would have made a hard course even harder, so black photographers assigned themselves other tasks.
Others simply assigned themselves to the twin towers, although the report said only 4 of 200 units had done that.
They were covering all the angles, but the different roles they assigned themselves perhaps reflected different sensibilities and even an attempt to distinguish themselves from each other.
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Using bee inspired task quitting agents can re-assign themselves to higher-demanded tasks by removing failed team assignments where requirements are not met.
Each pair will have Student A and Student B (assign these designations or ask the students to assign themselves).
Both artists assign themselves an evergreen social mission: to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
But if the justices thought they were thereby assigning themselves only a limited set of issues to review, they were mistaken.
The filmmakers view their characters with empathy but don't let them off the hook; Mr. Swanberg and Mr. Bujalski often assign themselves the least flattering roles available.
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