allocation
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Trading may now face a higher hurdle for additional resource allocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
He suggested investors maintain an allocation of between 5% and 15% to gold as part of a “balanced” portfolio, as that asset is hard money and a diversifier amid rising debt levels.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
But it still needs final security clearances and spectrum allocation before it can begin commercial services.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
For younger adults, a 5% to 20% target allocation to bonds is probably the right amount, she added, given that the majority still should probably be in equities, given their longer-term investment horizons.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Maddie’s egg allocation amounted to one per week.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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About 8,000 visiting fans, a figure that was much larger than previous away allocations, had been allowed into Ibrox back in March to witness Celtic's penalty shootout win.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The increases were directed at passenger vehicles filling up beyond their allocated quotas and come after Tehran already cut the monthly subsidized allocations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
While investors may not consciously try to boost their European exposure, passive inflows into non-U.S. equities have returned, mostly through international allocations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The accounting rules give companies one year to adjust their purchase-price allocations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Shift schedules, fund allocations, project juggling, out-and-out looting of other projects . . . he'd never pulled so many stunts in his life.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Vocabulary lists containing allocation
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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