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distribution

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




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Crude oil prices have dropped from recent peaks, but the fuel that powers food distribution has stayed stubbornly expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

“The potential impact will depend on whether we subsequently see changes to orders, capacity commitments, distribution channels or the regulatory environment.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Goss pointed out much of the wage growth in the U.S. since 1983 had been concentrated among the small number of people at the top of the income distribution and therefore escaped the tax.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

The two paleontologists analyzed the geographic distribution of fossil discoveries from animals that inhabited shallow marine environments over the past 540 million years.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The PIH-er called back with the name of an international entity called the Green Light Committee, established to control the distribution of a vaccine for meningitis.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Such broad distributions are not particularly unusual in tropical ecosystems.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The new pension agreement supports a rise in potential cash distributions at BT to 1.5 billion pounds in fiscal 2027, increasing 10% per year to 2 billion pounds in fiscal 2030, BofA says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Although hot and cold TNOs formed in different parts of the early solar system, their overall size distributions were remarkably alike.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

“There may be what I call a retirement ‘doughnut hole,’ a period after your paycheck stops but before Social Security, a pension or required distributions begin.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Instead, the mystery involves blacks, Pygmies, and Khoisan, whose distributions hint at past population upheavals.

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


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