distribute
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The company has traditionally employed its own drivers to distribute its doughnuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Musyoki believes the government should cap the number of pupils in each school and distribute teachers more evenly to allow the new system to flourish for all.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
If LA28 does make money, it would not be allowed to distribute its surplus funds to any other organization until after it has covered its financial obligations to the city, according to the tentative agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
Trusts are designed to manage assets, distribute income, prevent beneficiaries from getting too much money at one time, and, in many cases, avoid probate and help plan for a beneficiary’s incapacity.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
It is not decipherable in the moment, but eventually it will offer a picture of what is happening inside the study subject’s brain as she’s asked to distribute her focus more widely.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The stuntmen are presumably here because their parent company, Thrill Sports, also distributes Power Slap, Dana White’s passion project.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the brokerage in years past had to plead with issuers to set aside stock for the company’s IPO Access program, which distributes allocated retail shares at random to interested customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The city typically mails out more than 22,000 copies to residents and distributes about 2,000 copies at city facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Unless the trust is set up to pass those gains through, the trust may still owe taxes on them, even if it distributes that $300,000 in regular income every year.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Kazaryan planted his orchard in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union when farmland was distributed to private owners.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
The states also alleged that Paramount’s deal would harm workers because the company could reduce the number of movies it distributed as it would no longer face tough competition from Warner Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Yet the devastation was not evenly distributed across the tree of life.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Kumi allegedly distributed the money to his associates in the US and in Ghana.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The gifts to be distributed at the party were in the kitchen.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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The Philadelphia-based Comcast would remain in its core business of distributing pay TV channels and wireless services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
“And we were just distributing roles based on what we thought everyone’s strengths were. My role was supposed to be the CEO, since I did a lot of lab management.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
"Across popular neighbourhoods, organisations and local groups are distributing kits that include televisions and solar-powered inverter systems to help residents follow the tournament."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In addition, distributing money to Americans from any deals “would really take an act of Congress,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, an ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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