apportionment
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And, since the country’s founding, the U.S. has conducted a Census once a decade for the purposes of apportionment.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025
The successful challenge by Phoenix won’t change how many congressional seats Arizona got during the apportionment process, or the more detailed numbers used for redrawing political boundaries.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2023
Arizona began starting to take its full apportionment of river water in the late 1990s, and Nevada in the early 2000s.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2023
These panels often resort to computer programs to find the fairest possible apportionment.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2022
For a long time this hardship was endured in silence, until one day, at the weekly apportionment of the sugar, much the same sort of thing took place.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
Vocabulary lists containing apportionment
The Golden Compass
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"The Federalist No. 10," Vocabulary from the argument
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The Federalist No. 10 by James Madison
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