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distribution

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




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Lower-income people always get hit hard and early, but he says the effect “might be reaching higher into the income distribution than in the past.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 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

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

You pay taxes later when you take distributions.

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

Not to mention that Roth IRAs are not subject to required minimum distributions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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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