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distribution

[dis-truh-byoo-shuhn] / ˌdɪs trəˈbju ʃən /




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The distribution will make up about a fifth of the operating budget, or more than $2.2 billion, in fiscal year 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

When your RMDs start next year, you’re going to have to take out roughly $34,000 as a required minimum distribution.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

This patchwork distribution was consistent with scans taken while the patient was alive, which had already indicated that amyloid removal varied considerably across different parts of his brain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The affected products include Estradot transdermal and FemSeven Conti, both of which are currently facing manufacturing or distribution delays.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Instead, one might guess that they once had a more nearly continuous distribution, which became fragmented as speakers of other language families expanded or induced Miao-Yao speakers to abandon their tongues.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Stanford University endowment chief Robert Wallace wrote that distributions to the school’s operating budget had more than doubled over the last decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

So if yields are rising, maybe because inflation is running hot, the fund’s distributions will steadily rise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“The findings provide additional evidence supporting the role of a 6-8 hours’ sleep duration as a health safeguard for middle-aged and older adults, likely attributable to more favorable distributions of sleep stages,” the authors say.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

European soccer, similarly, is organized like hockey and baseball—and the birth-date distributions in that sport are heavily skewed as well.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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