distribution
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About 200 Army personnel began digging fire breaks over the weekend and provided logistical support, including water distribution.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The military has deployed personnel to help with distribution in key hubs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
However, the researchers caution that this geographic pattern could reflect differences in coroner awareness and testing practices rather than the actual distribution of cases.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
If you take your required minimum distribution in March and write your charitable checks in December, you’ll pay tax on money you gave away.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
On the basis of the binomial probability distribution and the 1/12,000,000 figure, this probability can be determined to be about 8 percent—small, but certainly allowing for reasonable doubt.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
To get by, parents are searching their local back-to-school fairs for supplies, or seeking out backpack giveaways and school supply distributions.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
These techniques could more widely increase knowledge of species' distributions, helping effective conservation to be targeted in the right place, it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Strong capital generation means the Dutch bank is well-positioned for capital distributions, RBC says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
While 59½ is generally the age when you can take retirement-account distributions without the 10% early-withdrawal penalty, Roth IRAs have a separate five-year rule for qualified, tax-free distributions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.
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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