- past tense form of distribute.
- past participle of distribute.
distributed
Example Sentences
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The singer also lead several major disaster-relief efforts, most notably creating the My People Fund after the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires which distributed about $10m to families who lost homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
"It's not just artifacts themselves but where they were on the site, how they were distributed and what they were associated with that tells the story."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Data centers and distributed IT accounted for 21% of the company’s sales last year, up from 14% at the end of 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
They were distributed to stores and retail consumers in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Resourceful as always, the young women collected the remaining fuel from each of their twenty aircraft and distributed it between eight lucky planes.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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