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divvy

[div-ee] / ˈdɪv i /


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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

“The only way around it is for the states to agree how to divvy up the river in an equitable way.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2026

Organized into “sanctuary school teams,” the volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—use Google documents to divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 11, 2026

I’m really not in the mood to divvy up everything into eleven equal parts, factoring in age, body weight, and physical output.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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 50/30/20 rule is a popular budgeting framework that divvies up after-tax income into three buckets: needs, wants and savings.

From Seattle Times Aug. 30, 2022

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

Congress divvies up the federal government into 12 pieces for purposes of determining annual spending levels.

From Science Magazine Jun. 22, 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

Not how much GDP grew, but how it was divvied up.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

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

That will create one more slice in an infield pie that is already being divvied between Rojas, Kiké Hernandez and Alex Freeland.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2025

They divvied up the yearbooks and quickly flipped through the pages.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

That can mean multiweek exclusive global runs for potential blockbusters like December’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” or divvying up screens, as “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” will do over Thanksgiving.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

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

Establishing a rotation and divvying minutes were the least of Cronin’s concerns.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 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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