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distribution

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




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In 2020, North Korea made possessing foreign media a crime punishable by years-long forced labour terms –- and potential death sentences for large-scale distribution, according to Amnesty International.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The ABS Evo system uses a six-axis sensor to precisely optimize brake-force distribution under changing conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

A sandbag distribution site at a parking lot located at 5400 E. Ocean Blvd. will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. beginning Friday and lasting through the weather event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We show that a well-established tool from studies of the Milky Way can be used to understand other galaxies, where measuring the distribution of dark matter has traditionally been very challenging," says Julie Kiel Holm.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

“The findings provide additional evidence supporting the role of a 6-8 hours’ sleep duration as a health safeguard for middle-aged and older adults, likely attributable to more favorable distributions of sleep stages,” the authors say.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Their dataset included 381 survey transects across 38 catchments and 499 rural properties, along with models charting the distributions of 160 bird species and 426 tree species.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The lawsuit focused on the merger’s effects on theater and cable distributions, but both are shrinking businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The years that matter are the ones after you stop working and before Social Security and required distributions increase your income.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.

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




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