apportionment
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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
Under those alternatives, federal officials said the cuts would reach about 2 million acre-feet each year — a much larger reduction from the total 7.5 million acre-feet apportionment for California, Nevada and Arizona.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023
In general, the apportionment of electoral districts this year appears to be the fairest in 40 years, as reported by the New York Times.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2022
Its peculiar construction, its tortuous passages, its small compartments and special apportionment, obviously indicate the prevalence of a taste "cabined, cribbed, confined," and preclude the admittance of free ventilation and free intercourse.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
Vocabulary lists containing apportionment
The Golden Compass
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The Federalist No. 10 by James Madison
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