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Recent Examples of apportion Emery apportioned the blame for Brighton’s goal on defenders being too deep and consequently not catching attackers offside. Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024 Kansas law allows the state to apportion sports betting revenue as an incentive for teams to relocate. Matt Rybaltowski, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024 Expressing concern with the bloodshed, then U.S. Senator Joe Biden recommended splitting the country along three neat lines, apportioning one chunk for Shiites, one for Sunni Arabs, and one for Kurds. Renad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2023 The two groups of states have presented starkly different proposals, disagreeing on how triggers for mandatory cutbacks should be determined, and how the reductions should be apportioned. Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for apportion
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Verb
  • An eye poke late in the third round paused the contest for the full five minutes Cejudo was allotted to recover from the foul.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The exceptions were Kentucky and Vermont, which received around 3 percent of the seats in the House, and Maine, which had about 4 percent of the total after Congress allotted the new state seven of Massachusetts's previous 20 seats.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This account is based on interviews with 12 people with knowledge of developments at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the federal agency that oversees all these international broadcasters and distributes money to them.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Jordy’s job for the last few years hasn’t just been about collecting and distributing money.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In contrast, there were about 80,000 US troops assigned or deployed to bases in NATO countries as of June 2024, a July 2024 report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Here's an example: An AI assistant coach might analyze an employee group session and assign each employee a daily task that fosters long-term improvement.
    Kevin Korte, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The oversized vending machine near the tournament entrance and at the store dispense the signature headband, branded by Lululemon, of course.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The lawsuit asks the court to outlaw the medication for anyone under 18, reinstate the in-person appointment requirement, mandate that only doctors can prescribe the pills and limit the ability of retail pharmacies, like CVS and Walgreens, to dispense the medication.
    Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The state budget has allocated $400,000 annually to support the Correction Ombudsman’s office.
    James Watson, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Apart from gaming, the group is also deepening its investment in the energy sector, allocating $1.3 billion in a floating liquified natural gas project in Indonesia.
    Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Primary care has long been associated with the image of a busy doctor, divided between patients and the administrative grind.
    Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
    Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Context Russia's invasion of Ukraine last week entered its fourth year, with the U.S. previously providing billions in military and humanitarian support.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The upper stage ended up exploding over the Atlantic Ocean, providing a dramatic sky show for people in the Turks and Caicos Islands and nearby areas.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This poll was administered among a random sample of 5,876 adults with a margin of sampling error of +/- 2 percentage points.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Rubio said that the remaining 1,000 or so contracts would be administered by the State Department, which absorbed the U.S. Agency for international Development (USAID) last month.
    Melody Schreiber, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Apportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportion. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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