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A local spirit medium sprinkles blood on the ground to appease the ancestors before blessing the kill and presiding over the distribution of the meat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Recent disruption to water distribution "was not caused by data centres or AI or investors entering that sector," Amsakar Achmad, Batam mayor and head of BP Batam said in October, according to local media.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Also understand how the timing of withdrawing investments can impact your overall balance, such as if you’re taking a distribution in a bear market when it will take longer for your portfolio to recover.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
He suggested that the authorities could introduce a system to track the distribution and purchase of medicines to help identify possible misuse.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
In addition to collaborating on the company’s games, he masterminded all of their early marketing campaigns and shareware distribution schemes, with astounding results.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
We are encouraged to delay our dream life, save more, work longer and maximize our retirement contributions until our required minimum distributions kick in.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
The new pension agreement supports a rise in potential cash distributions at BT to 1.5 billion pounds in fiscal 2027, increasing 10% per year to 2 billion pounds in fiscal 2030, BofA says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Additional analyses of ancient animal distributions pointed toward northern Africa and the Middle East as the most likely geographic home of the common ancestor of all living apes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Note to seniors: The recent changes to charitable deductions don’t alter qualified charitable distributions, or QCDs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - High School
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