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distribution

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




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Thursday’s fracture was on a steel pipe that forms the major arteries for water delivery from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution lines across Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

With an indirect rollover, the check is made payable to the former employee, is treated as a distribution and is subject to mandatory 20% tax withholding.

From MarketWatch Jul. 19, 2026

MBA senior research fellow Dr Bryce Stewart said: "Important and vulnerable shark species live in English waters, yet significant knowledge gaps remain regarding their distribution and abundance."

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Taylor Farms’ sprawling network of farms, plants and distribution operations has made it a crucial supplier of fresh produce to some of America’s biggest retailers and restaurant brands.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Odessa established itself as a distribution point for oil field equipment and experienced more growth in a month than it had in ten years, inundated by men who were called simply boomers.

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

Only 14% of retirees have a real strategy for their required minimum distributions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

Cash distributions will align with those ownership interests, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Those distributions can satisfy all or part of your RMD without being included in your taxable income.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

The company said it used the money raised to fund payment of distributions on preferred stock, and to replenish the money used from its U.S. dollar reserves for the distributions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 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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