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apportionment

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


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And, since the country’s founding, the U.S. has conducted a Census once a decade for the purposes of apportionment.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

But as a matter of paramount importance to the compact, the Texas apportionment and the treaty water will be delivered,” Melloy wrote in his report.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2023

Under those alternatives, federal officials said the cuts would reach about 2 million acre-feet each year — a much larger reduction from the total 7.5 million acre-feet apportionment for California, Nevada and Arizona.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

These panels often resort to computer programs to find the fairest possible apportionment.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2022

There were in those columns twenty-six of General Lee’s forty brigades, equipped with a fair apportionment of artillery and cavalry.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James




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