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distribution

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




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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

Big Caring plans to expand its retail network, strengthen its sales channels, improve distribution infrastructure and broaden its pharmacy services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The terms of the distribution would be as follows:

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Calculating the pressure distribution over a particular airfoil at a transonic speed could easily take a month to complete for the most experienced of mathematicians.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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

A lack of distributions and write-offs reduces available funds that underpin economic activity, creating adverse feedback loops.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Modern computational methods now allow researchers to examine molecular structures and electron distributions in ways that were not possible when many textbook explanations were first developed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

The team made complex tables of the letter distributions in these messages.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield


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