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[div-ee] / ˈdɪv i /


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After Sol’s business partner died of a heart attack while sitting at his Chrysler Building desk, he and his partner’s son flipped coins to divvy up envelopes with dozens of properties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Chey has argued that Roh played no role in SK’s recent success and that judges should base the divvy on an earlier measure—before his company’s stock boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

“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

As I walked, I started calculating how I was gonna divvy up these last five fish.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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 $1.5 billion offer price, which divvies out to about $14 per share, represents a 45% premium to WalkMe’s Tuesday closing share price.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

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

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

Becker said about $80.5 million will be returned to the other states, and around $13.8 million will be divvied up among California schools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

The boys divvied up their positions and took the field.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

But too often when thinking of reciprocity, we think of like for like, or divvying up expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Those teams haggle over international marketing rights like postwar leaders divvying up a continent.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024

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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