apportioned
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The state was apportioned a bare 300,000 acre-feet a year in 1928, when Las Vegas was merely a dusty outpost miles from the Hoover Dam construction site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Grand homes were simply apportioned room by room to different families,” said Arcos of the Institute for Cuban Studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
A chunk of blame is being apportioned to the chancellor's fiscal rules – and to the chancellor herself.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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