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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

This includes Barclays, which apportions 33% of the capital markets financing to the bank and the rest to investors.

From Reuters Mar. 24, 2023

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

From Textbooks Jul. 28, 2021

Yardbird apportions some dishes as if a crowd is eating.

From Washington Post Jun. 23, 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

“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

They have yet to announce details of how the water cuts will be apportioned between the region’s farms and cities.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 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 was a big meal for France but it seemed very carefully apportioned after Spain.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

Starr and other college leaders pointed out that only a small number of highly sought after institutions consider race as a factor in apportioning seats.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2023

In 1948 that apportioning made sense because fission and fusion seemed promising, and no one much saw the need for efficiency.

From Scientific American Jun. 5, 2023

She said the apology was "for blaming my husband, apportioning 50% blame to himself for causing his own death and for a very poor investigation that in fact seemed to favour the driver".

From BBC Aug. 22, 2022

Ernest drew up a preliminary list of first-year grants covering almost every cyclotron in the country save his own, apportioning $10,000 each for Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, and Princeton.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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