allocation
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That £27.4m is being spent via Stormont departments, with the biggest allocation of £13m going to the Department for the Economy.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Under the updated rules, associations budgeting less than 15% can still qualify if a reserve study supports it—provided the budget includes the study’s highest recommended reserve allocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
NDR’s asset-allocation model recommends a 70% allocation to stocks, 20% to bonds and 10% to cash, which compares with benchmark weights of 55%, 35% and 10%, respectively.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Cedars-Sinai spokeswoman Sally Stewart added in an emailed statement that “changing the allocation formula risks undermining the system that Measure B was designed to protect and sustain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Maddie’s egg allocation amounted to one per week.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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StubHub said tickets can legitimately enter the secondary market early through presales or authorized partner allocations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Ares’s alternative credit strategy focuses on asset-based finance, a fast-growing area of private credit that has attracted sizable capital allocations from investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the fund also has sizable allocations to the industrial and consumer discretionary sectors, with 30% of its assets in those two sectors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The $48 billion BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio Fund has sizable allocations to mortgage securities—agency and nonagency—and non-U.S. debt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
During that same period, DEA antidrug spending grew from $86 to $1,026 million, and FBI antidrug allocations grew from $38 to $181 million.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Vocabulary lists containing allocation
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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