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apportion

[uh-pawr-shuhn, uh-pohr-] / əˈpɔr ʃən, əˈpoʊr- /


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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 Entso-e report steered clear of such issues, insisting that its investigation did not aim to apportion blame.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2026

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

In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.

From Seattle Times Aug. 20, 2023

The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.

From Textbooks Jul. 28, 2021

Valladares calculates his savings might last six months, if he walks everywhere instead of spending three dollars on bus fare and buys frozen chicken drumsticks in bulk and apportions them out weekly.

From Reuters Oct. 13, 2020

Where "Doctor Who" apportions crumbs on the way to finally making sense of an episode or an arc, "Class" drops them all at once on the table and tries to mash them into a loaf.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2017

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

That’s a little more than the entire volume apportioned to Arizona under the plan.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

District Judge Thomas M. Durkin ordered that the settlement funds, which totaled $7.5 million, be apportioned to each client as soon as possible.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 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

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

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 upcoming negotiations will also involve questions about how the current system of managing dams and apportioning water can be revamped to adapt to climate change.

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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