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apportion

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


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She taught them about the matching system and how to apportion their savings to get the most out of it.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

But it’s hard if not impossible to prove that social media caused any given individual’s troubles, let alone apportion liability among the platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

The preliminary report states its role is "not to apportion blame or liability".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

The annual assessment, called the point-in-time count, is used to apportion federal dollars and provides a long-term measure of the state of homelessness in America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025

Rationales for still other ways to apportion the money are possible.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

Valladares calculates his savings might last six months, if he walks everywhere instead of spending three dollars on bus fare and buys frozen chicken drumsticks in bulk and apportions them out weekly.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2020

Where "Doctor Who" apportions crumbs on the way to finally making sense of an episode or an arc, "Class" drops them all at once on the table and tries to mash them into a loaf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2017

Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“Grand homes were simply apportioned room by room to different families,” said Arcos of the Institute for Cuban Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

They have yet to announce details of how the water cuts will be apportioned between the region’s farms and cities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

The blame apportioned to these protests does not sit right with many, even some sections of the Jewish community.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

Because of that distrust, the founders carefully apportioned responsibility over the “militia” — today’s National Guard — between the federal government and the states.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025

Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He shows her ideas taking shape at desks where classifications opened or foreclosed futures, within organizations charged with apportioning the remnants of an inheritance among the living.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Without apportioning blame, the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned of the safety risks of such attacks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

But as the warming climate intensifies the state’s cycles of flood and drought, its system for apportioning water is under strain.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and others have suggested it’s time to revamp the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which divided the water among the seven states, to include measures for apportioning reductions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

“There is no point apportioning blame,” said Snape smoothly.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling


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