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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

The Entso-e report steered clear of such issues, insisting that its investigation did not aim to apportion blame.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2026

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

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

The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.

From Textbooks Jul. 28, 2021

Yardbird apportions some dishes as if a crowd is eating.

From Washington Post Jun. 23, 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

“Grand homes were simply apportioned room by room to different families,” said Arcos of the Institute for Cuban Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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

How responsibility should be apportioned between Girardi and Kamon has been contested since Girardi’s downfall four years ago.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2025

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

Andrea Simon, director of the group End Violence Against Women, agrees that society needs to move away from apportioning blame on women.

From BBC Jan. 23, 2023

The compact — essentially an interstate treaty — set the rules for apportioning the waters of the river.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 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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