divvy
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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
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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
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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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