distribute
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In exchange for the rights to market and distribute that SportsNet LA channel, Time Warner Cable agreed to pay the Dodgers $8.35 billion over 25 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cantor Fitzgerald will act as a broker, buying or selling blocks of event contracts and helping to distribute them through private negotiations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Schools and colleges will distribute grades in person, but from 11:00 BST pupils at more than 750 schools in England will also be able to see their grades on their phones.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
It’s more common for life-insurance companies to distribute dividends.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
T. Arnold Hill led the Urban League’s efforts to help, conducting a food survey and setting up a food station to distribute donated groceries.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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The company also distributes liquified-petroleum products in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Soccer takes a 20% cut, and then distributes all World Cup prize money equally among 52 players — 26 players on the roster of each team.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Roku is an attractive asset because its smart TV platform distributes streaming services to more than 100 million households.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The stuntmen are presumably here because their parent company, Thrill Sports, also distributes Power Slap, Dana White’s passion project.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
I think of Santa Thaya again as he distributes the presents.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
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“Drones are critical because they directly support Taiwan’s effort to build a more distributed, survivable and asymmetric defense posture,” said Fang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Under this proposal, assets buried inside a 20-layer Russian nesting doll of shell companies would face a 20% tax penalty when distributed, or 1% for every layer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
By surveying huge areas of the sky and tracking how matter and galaxies are distributed across the cosmos, Roman could give researchers new clues about both phenomena.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
California already has millions of these items, referred to as distributed energy resources, and the bill would make it easier for utilities to tap them when electricity demand is high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nevertheless, George Washington was born into wealth, which is much more unequally distributed in the United States than in New Guinea villages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Companies such as Northwestern Mutual, New York Life and MassMutual have been consistently distributing dividends to customers since the 1800s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
They contend the costs and energy demands of producing and distributing it make it inferior to batteries in almost every case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
UK ministers say replacing and upgrading decades-old infrastructure is vital for distributing renewable power and improving energy security.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Luna Blanca, a Ceuta-based charity providing food and social assistance to vulnerable people, said it had been distributing between 3,500 and 4,000 meals a day since the influx began.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Down the row she went, distributing the tests.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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