distribution
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I am in my 60s and have a pension through my employer that I can take as a lump-sum distribution, which would leave me with approximately $80,000 after taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The document made it clear that initial cash injection would fund the $20m "extraordinary distribution" to each of the 211 member associations.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Everything in agriculture, everything in construction, everything in mining. Also everything on the supply and distribution side runs on diesel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The distribution of Indus seals offers further evidence of this approach.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
This technique transformed individual particle distributions into continuous energy, momentum, and velocity fields, allowing the team to examine the plasma as an evolving fluid.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Researchers from China, the US, and Israel estimated quasi-steady-state supersaturation using measurements of updraft speeds and cloud droplet size distributions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Those with elevated MAGIs will have to make minimum distributions, the legislators said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Only 14% of retirees have a real strategy for their required minimum distributions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Instead, the mystery involves blacks, Pygmies, and Khoisan, whose distributions hint at past population upheavals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - High School
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Earth Science - Middle School
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