distribution

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Eaton shareholders will own at least 50.1% of the combined company, and Eaton will receive a $1.1 billion cash distribution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The current standard model of cosmology, known as ΛCDM, successfully explains many large-scale features of the universe, including its expansion and the distribution of galaxies.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

"But discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected: the size of distribution, the depth and the age range were far beyond anything we had imagined," Xiaotong Peng said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Understand the implications of inheriting bank or retirement accounts, such as how the money may be transferred from one person to another or what the distribution rules might be for an investment account.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Also, by 2000, traders by the thousands had begun to move back and forth across the border supplying food and goods for markets that had all but replaced the government’s public distribution system.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden