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apportion

[uh-pawr-shuhn, uh-pohr-] / əˈpɔr ʃən, əˈpoʊr- /


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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

"This is new territory," Cortinas said, adding the role of Entso-e was "not to apportion blame to any party" over the cause.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 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

Valladares calculates his savings might last six months, if he walks everywhere instead of spending three dollars on bus fare and buys frozen chicken drumsticks in bulk and apportions them out weekly.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2020

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

Any judgments received could be apportioned among consumers, with their respective share of damages added to their annual tax bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The blame apportioned to these protests does not sit right with many, even some sections of the Jewish community.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

It’s the first time in more than four decades that a Washington state politician has apportioned the federal river of money, since the late Sen. Warren Magnuson last chaired the same committee.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

The immorality of the bantustan policy, whereby 70 percent of the people would be apportioned only 13 percent of the land, was obvious.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

The upcoming negotiations will also involve questions about how the current system of managing dams and apportioning water can be revamped to adapt to climate change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

He has "no interest" in apportioning blame for his wife's death, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022

Ernest drew up a preliminary list of first-year grants covering almost every cyclotron in the country save his own, apportioning $10,000 each for Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, and Princeton.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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