apportion
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She taught them about the matching system and how to apportion their savings to get the most out of it.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
But it’s hard if not impossible to prove that social media caused any given individual’s troubles, let alone apportion liability among the platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
The preliminary report states its role is "not to apportion blame or liability".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
The annual assessment, called the point-in-time count, is used to apportion federal dollars and provides a long-term measure of the state of homelessness in America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
Rationales for still other ways to apportion the money are possible.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
The Colorado River Compact, signed a century ago last fall, only apportions water between two basins, the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
On Tuesday, the Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure package in a 69-30 vote that apportions billions of dollars for building new transmission lines, public transit and electric-car charging stations.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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That’s a little more than the entire volume apportioned to Arizona under the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Because of that distrust, the founders carefully apportioned responsibility over the “militia” — today’s National Guard — between the federal government and the states.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025
A chunk of blame is being apportioned to the chancellor's fiscal rules – and to the chancellor herself.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is measured with sensors and aerial images, reservoir levels are electronically logged, and the movement of water through aqueducts is apportioned based on rights and contracts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Between them they apportioned their mother’s seven silver stretch marks.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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He shows her ideas taking shape at desks where classifications opened or foreclosed futures, within organizations charged with apportioning the remnants of an inheritance among the living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Without apportioning blame, the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned of the safety risks of such attacks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
But as the warming climate intensifies the state’s cycles of flood and drought, its system for apportioning water is under strain.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
The Interior Department on Thursday initiated the process of developing new long-term rules for operating reservoirs and apportioning water cuts during shortages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
“There is no point apportioning blame,” said Snape smoothly.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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The Legislative Branch, Sections 1–3
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In the Shadow of Liberty
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