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apportionment

[uh-pawr-shuhn-muhnt, uh-pohr-] / əˈpɔr ʃən mənt, əˈpoʊr- /


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Federal law holds that a mid-decade Census can be conducted, but not used for apportionment.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

The successful challenge by Phoenix won’t change how many congressional seats Arizona got during the apportionment process, or the more detailed numbers used for redrawing political boundaries.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2023

Arizona began starting to take its full apportionment of river water in the late 1990s, and Nevada in the early 2000s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2023

These panels often resort to computer programs to find the fairest possible apportionment.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2022

There were in those columns twenty-six of General Lee’s forty brigades, equipped with a fair apportionment of artillery and cavalry.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James




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