apportioning

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The White House says it intends to replace the current system, a random lottery apportioning available H-1B slots among all applicants, with one favoring applications to fill the highest-paid slots.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

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

In 1948 that apportioning made sense because fission and fusion seemed promising, and no one much saw the need for efficiency.

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

She said the apology was "for blaming my husband, apportioning 50% blame to himself for causing his own death and for a very poor investigation that in fact seemed to favour the driver".

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2022

When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey