allocate
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"In light of the situation the force has faced, we will allocate an additional £2m to Cleveland Police to tackle serious crime in the area," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Washington, meanwhile, has announced plans to allocate $1 billion toward Colombia's security.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
While the fund can be aggressive in making changes when called upon to do so, it’s also disciplined in following its quantitative process to select stocks, buy and sell them, and allocate its portfolio weighting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
But it also prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers this summer to allocate $40 million to help counties speed up the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s easy to allocate resources when everyone gets the same thing, but everything is more varied at the Dauntless compound.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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Accounting rules dictate that companies report segments based on how the “chief operating decision maker” assesses performance and allocates resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The program allocates $135 million to provide incentives, with participating automakers matching the funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve a motion to hire a consultant to reevaluate how it allocates funds collected via a property tax instituted by Measure B, a 2002 ballot initiative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It was seen as a coup when Situational attracted institutional investors including quant trading firm Jane Street, which ranks among Wall Street’s most profitable firms and rarely allocates capital to outside managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The San Francisco record is very precise, since it allocates each neophyte to his rancheria, or at least to the local region of his origin.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook
Investors have been concerned this year about Oracle’s high capital expenditures — spending allocated toward things like data centers — as well as its profitability and ability to fund its noncancelable contract commitments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
In addition to Monday’s announcement, the EU has proposed more than doubling the funding allocated for Greenland as part of its long-term budget, to €530 million from 2028-34.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The fund, from money already allocated to the British Business Bank, will provide investments of between £5m and £15m.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Managing those limited supplies requires careful decisions about how water is stored, allocated, and shared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
He began lobbying officials there to include the various second-line antibiotics on their list of “essential drugs”—a list that the ministries followed and allocated money for in their budgets.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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By examining the organization of both biological brains and artificial neural networks, Imam and his colleagues found evidence that evolution may involve allocating a limited amount of brain space among competing wiring strategies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
On Monday, Reform announced similar plans to prioritise British-born workers under 35 when allocating social housing if it were to enter government.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Weibo is boosting its video-content strategy and allocating more resources to AI to drive long-term user engagement, they add, noting the movesappear strategically sound but could pressure profitability, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Richter has called for setting a cap on total water use and allocating water based on what the river can provide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
All that was clear was that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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