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distribution

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




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In late 2025 and early 2026, the company closed 80 underperforming store locations and a distribution center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

PepsiCo’s plan includes cutting nearly 20% of its U.S. products and reviewing its North American supply chain and distribution network.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Analyst Nathan Lead’s estimate of free cash in FY28-FY29 is some 8-10% below Transurban’s guidance of a FY27 distribution of A$0.72/share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Investment that merely expands distribution networks or assembles products using Chinese parts could increase imports and deepen dependence. Approvals should therefore prioritise technology transfer, local value addition, domestic component production and exports from India."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Again, a third factor, the age distribution of the various regions, points toward an explanation.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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

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

From MarketWatch ● 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions.

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




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