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[div-ee] / ˈdɪv i /


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The disclosures come amid a global debate over how countries should set and divvy up tax payments by huge multinational companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

FIFA’s prize money goes directly to national football federations, but each federation has the discretion to divvy up the funds however it wants, according to FIFA’s official governing documents.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Colleges can divvy up the money among athletes and sports programs however they choose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Developers rejoice: L.A. is about to divvy up $387 million for affordable housing projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

Auntie Fatima was right: Goodies rock, especially because the winning team got to divvy up and take the leftovers home.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

It could be one of the defining moments between now and the next general election, as the government divvies up spending for the health service, defence, schools, the police, prisons, courts and much else.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

The $1.5 billion offer price, which divvies out to about $14 per share, represents a 45% premium to WalkMe’s Tuesday closing share price.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing TV and film actors, joined the writers in a walkout over how Hollywood divvies up the cash in the streaming era and how humans can thrive in the artificial-intelligence era.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

The pro rata model, which is used by industry heavyweights like Spotify and Apple Music, pools all subscription money and divvies it up based on total streams across the platform.

From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022

Some poor divvies he'll bully-rag into swearin' lies an' others he'll buy.

From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine

And Standard Oil’s progeny formed the core of the “Seven Sisters” oil majors that divvied up among themselves the Middle East’s resources until the 1970s.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Shippers would have had to pay a fee per metric ton of “excess” carbon-dioxide emissions into an IMO-managed fund, with the money then divvied up to various governments and businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

The rest get divvied up to other major conferences, along with the moves of Oklahoma and Texas from the Big 12 to the SEC.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

Madix filed suit against Sandoval in a Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday and, according to court documents obtained by The Times, wants the house sold and the money divvied up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

We took everything home, divvied it up, and went off to pack—Katz to the bedroom where all his other stuff was, I to my basement HQ.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

But too often when thinking of reciprocity, we think of like for like, or divvying up expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The second is that Central and Eastern European countries have a history of great powers divvying up their lands, first in 1938, in Munich with Adolf Hitler, and then in Yalta 1945, with Josef Stalin.

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2025

They banged on maps of Africa, as if divvying up the continent to their liking.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

The office environment is calm and collegial, with meteorologists sharing tips as they gather around screens to watch the latest storm progress and divvying up duties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

Velia snatched it up and started sorting it, divvying it up between herself and Delia.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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