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distribution

[dis-truh-byoo-shuhn] / ˌdɪs trəˈbju ʃən /




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The military has deployed personnel to help with distribution in key hubs.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

"Players are becoming their own distribution levers, with some in particular taking a driving seat in terms of 'how I project myself onto the world' and building their own channels and audience," explains Kyle.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

However, the researchers caution that this geographic pattern could reflect differences in coroner awareness and testing practices rather than the actual distribution of cases.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The qualified charitable distribution, or QCD, lets an IRA owner send money straight from the IRA to a qualified charity.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The children who hounded us daily for money and food weren’t dim-witted beggars; they were accustomed to the distribution of excess, and couldn’t fathom why we held ourselves apart.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In that case, beneficiaries may generally use the 10-year rule, take distributions under another applicable method, or take a lump-sum distribution.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

To get by, parents are searching their local back-to-school fairs for supplies, or seeking out backpack giveaways and school supply distributions.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

These techniques could more widely increase knowledge of species' distributions, helping effective conservation to be targeted in the right place, it said.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Orsted said it plans to reinstate dividend distributions for 2026, with the first distribution next year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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