divvy
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FIFA’s prize money goes directly to national football federations, but each federation has the discretion to divvy up the funds however it wants, according to FIFA’s official governing documents.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Colleges can divvy up the money among athletes and sports programs however they choose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Magouyrk and Sicilia said in an interview they will each lean on the other’s area of specialty as they divvy up responsibilities at the very top.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Developers rejoice: L.A. is about to divvy up $387 million for affordable housing projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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It could be one of the defining moments between now and the next general election, as the government divvies up spending for the health service, defence, schools, the police, prisons, courts and much else.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing TV and film actors, joined the writers in a walkout over how Hollywood divvies up the cash in the streaming era and how humans can thrive in the artificial-intelligence era.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
The 50/30/20 rule is a popular budgeting framework that divvies up after-tax income into three buckets: needs, wants and savings.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
The pro rata model, which is used by industry heavyweights like Spotify and Apple Music, pools all subscription money and divvies it up based on total streams across the platform.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022
Some poor divvies he'll bully-rag into swearin' lies an' others he'll buy.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
Not how much GDP grew, but how it was divvied up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
And Standard Oil’s progeny formed the core of the “Seven Sisters” oil majors that divvied up among themselves the Middle East’s resources until the 1970s.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Sixty-four teams are divvied up into eight divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
His vast empire, divvied between News Corp. and Fox Corp., allows his outlets to have different leanings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
The answer depended on how the Southside was divvied up between the two schools in the aftermath of the court battle.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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That can mean multiweek exclusive global runs for potential blockbusters like December’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” or divvying up screens, as “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” will do over Thanksgiving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Those teams haggle over international marketing rights like postwar leaders divvying up a continent.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
“Joan,” a new play by Daniel Goldstein directed by David Ivers at South Coast Repertory, gives it a shot by divvying up the central role between two actors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
They banged on maps of Africa, as if divvying up the continent to their liking.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Vonetta was good at keeping track of things and divvying them up between us, so I let her be in charge of handing out the “new state” candy.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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