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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

World football's governing body wants to release the money from its reserves in a move which would more than double the level of planned distribution funding for 2027-2030.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Skydance shares are adjusting to the distribution of warrants that give eligible shareholders the right to buy stock at $12 a share.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Q: Can you help me understand the difference between the 30-day SEC yield and the trailing 12-month distribution yield?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Each year some outward movement beyond the existing boundaries of its distribution usually takes place.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

You pay taxes later when you take distributions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

On top of that, if the original owner had started taking the required minimum distributions, the IRS also requires annual distributions in years one through nine, not just a single withdrawal in year 10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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

The significance of that botanical wealth for humans is illustrated by the geographer Mark Blunder's studies of wild grass distributions.

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


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