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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

The terms of the distribution would be as follows:

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The disruption was due to delays in distribution after a tanker had trouble discharging its cargo, Simon Aloysius Mantiri, president director of state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina, said Tuesday along with an apology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

He’d just received in the mail the pairings chart and color distribution from Mar del Plata.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

That wouldn’t matter for retirees holding Treasurys inside a tax-deferred retirement account like an IRA, but any distributions would count as income.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Those younger than 59½ also could face a 10% tax on early distributions unless an exception applies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Their dataset included 381 survey transects across 38 catchments and 499 rural properties, along with models charting the distributions of 160 bird species and 426 tree species.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

All these languages, “big” and “little,” fall into four language families, which differ greatly in the compactness of their distributions.

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


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