apportion
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She taught them about the matching system and how to apportion their savings to get the most out of it.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
But it’s hard if not impossible to prove that social media caused any given individual’s troubles, let alone apportion liability among the platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
The preliminary report states its role is "not to apportion blame or liability".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
Those on both sides say they are willing to continue trying to reach a deal on how to apportion cutbacks in water use after 2026, when the current rules expire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
Rationales for still other ways to apportion the money are possible.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
The Colorado River Compact, signed a century ago last fall, only apportions water between two basins, the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
There’s a lot more to “White Noise” than even that, illuminated in the revealing monologues Parks apportions to her four characters, all excellently embodied on the Milton Theatre stage in Studio’s recently renovated complex.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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That’s a little more than the entire volume apportioned to Arizona under the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The blame apportioned to these protests does not sit right with many, even some sections of the Jewish community.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
Because of that distrust, the founders carefully apportioned responsibility over the “militia” — today’s National Guard — between the federal government and the states.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025
It’s the first time in more than four decades that a Washington state politician has apportioned the federal river of money, since the late Sen. Warren Magnuson last chaired the same committee.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
The immorality of the bantustan policy, whereby 70 percent of the people would be apportioned only 13 percent of the land, was obvious.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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He shows her ideas taking shape at desks where classifications opened or foreclosed futures, within organizations charged with apportioning the remnants of an inheritance among the living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Without apportioning blame, the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned of the safety risks of such attacks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
The Interior Department on Thursday initiated the process of developing new long-term rules for operating reservoirs and apportioning water cuts during shortages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
He has "no interest" in apportioning blame for his wife's death, he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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The Legislative Branch, Sections 1–3
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