divvy
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FIFA’s prize money goes directly to national football federations, but each federation has the discretion to divvy up the funds however it wants, according to FIFA’s official governing documents.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Colleges can divvy up the money among athletes and sports programs however they choose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Rather than going big on a few risky bets, they instead divvy up money, in some cases, across hundreds of specialized investment teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
“The only way around it is for the states to agree how to divvy up the river in an equitable way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
“She’ll claim it’s community property, divvy it out to her minions, and there goes our emergency supply.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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It could be one of the defining moments between now and the next general election, as the government divvies up spending for the health service, defence, schools, the police, prisons, courts and much else.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
The 50/30/20 rule is a popular budgeting framework that divvies up after-tax income into three buckets: needs, wants and savings.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
The pro rata model, which is used by industry heavyweights like Spotify and Apple Music, pools all subscription money and divvies it up based on total streams across the platform.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022
Congress divvies up the federal government into 12 pieces for purposes of determining annual spending levels.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 22, 2022
Some poor divvies he'll bully-rag into swearin' lies an' others he'll buy.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
Not how much GDP grew, but how it was divvied up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
And Standard Oil’s progeny formed the core of the “Seven Sisters” oil majors that divvied up among themselves the Middle East’s resources until the 1970s.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Sixty-four teams are divvied up into eight divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The problem stems from long-term funding challenges, Hsiao said in the interview, with the department receiving varying amounts of money each year that have to be divvied up among competing equipment needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
They divvied up the yearbooks and quickly flipped through the pages.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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That can mean multiweek exclusive global runs for potential blockbusters like December’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” or divvying up screens, as “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” will do over Thanksgiving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The second is that Central and Eastern European countries have a history of great powers divvying up their lands, first in 1938, in Munich with Adolf Hitler, and then in Yalta 1945, with Josef Stalin.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2025
They banged on maps of Africa, as if divvying up the continent to their liking.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Establishing a rotation and divvying minutes were the least of Cronin’s concerns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Meeting people, organizing a school, scheduling regular prayers, divvying up work.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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