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redistribute

[ree-di-strib-yoot] / ˌri dɪˈstrɪb jut /


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Kousser described the original 2012 tax increase as a game-changer that allowed the state to redistribute wealth from rich to poor regions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The research shows how major seasonal changes, including melting snow, moving ocean water, and dense winter air, redistribute enormous amounts of mass across Earth's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Riding a populist wave to redistribute wealth, Tiberius Gracchus appealed to the democratic concilium plebis, cutting out the deliberative Senate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

For the projects to meaningfully lower bills or boost investment in clean energy, the government would have to introduce specific mechanisms to redistribute some of the revenues generated, Rutter explained.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Back in the 1980s, the original stated purpose of the mortgage-backed bond had been to redistribute the risk associated with home mortgage lending.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Meanwhile, SK Hynix redistributes 10% of its operating profit in employee bonuses—a practice Samsung is starting to adopt.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Squeezing redistributes this uncertainty by making one property more precise while increasing uncertainty in the other.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026

Charles has been a long-standing supporter of reducing food waste, and the Coronation Food Project which was established in 2023, redistributes surplus food to people in need in Merseyside, Birmingham, and London.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

The Kindness Offensive, a charity that redistributes donated goods to schools, food banks and community groups, was behind the gift drive.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

Its shape changes utterly as the weight redistributes.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Changes to the funding formula for councils under the Fair Funding Review 2.0, external will see money redistributed from some council areas to others.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Using rapid X-ray flashes produced at the European XFEL, the researchers followed changes at specific atoms as the molecule released and redistributed the absorbed energy.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

During the Progressive Era, when party machine politics dominated, judicial elections were put forward as a reform to promote democratic accountability because they broke up concentrations of power and redistributed it to the people.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

Petno helped put an end to its stand-alone mergers and acquisitions department and redistributed that team across the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

I had written that Kwang took no profits and made no interest, that he just redistributed funds at the end of every week, like any ggeh.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

In North Andover, administrators closed an elementary school last year as a result of declining enrollment, redistributing about 200 students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

By redistributing enormous amounts of heat through the Atlantic, it helps shape regional temperatures, rainfall patterns, sea level, and weather.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

She has said Wildberries was "focused on redistributing" across its warehouses and "ensuring the financial stability of our partners."

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

I’m worried I may not be diversified enough and may fare better selling and redistributing into less risky index funds.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms.

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


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