- present participle of apportion.
apportioning
Example Sentences
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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
Andrea Simon, director of the group End Violence Against Women, agrees that society needs to move away from apportioning blame on women.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2023
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
