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divvy

[div-ee] / ˈdɪv i /


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Chey has argued that Roh played no role in SK’s recent success and that judges should base the divvy on an earlier measure—before his company’s stock boom.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 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

It could rewrite the rules that divvy up the ping-pong balls for the draft lottery.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2025

Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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 Raine, William MacLeod

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

Becker said about $80.5 million will be returned to the other states, and around $13.8 million will be divvied up among California schools.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2024

The answer depended on how the Southside was divvied up between the two schools in the aftermath of the court battle.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

Those teams haggle over international marketing rights like postwar leaders divvying up a continent.

From Slate Dec. 12, 2024

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

“By the way”—she lowers her voice—“we’re divvying up the earnings at the dock tomorrow and you are getting exactly nothing.”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko




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