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
So how do you divvy up the biggest spectacle in sports among three continental powers?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
In a joint interview with the Journal, Atkins and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig spoke about their efforts to craft regulations and divvy up oversight of the crypto industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 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
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
His vast empire, divvied between News Corp. and Fox Corp., allows his outlets to have different leanings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
They divvied up the yearbooks and quickly flipped through the pages.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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
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
Velia snatched it up and started sorting it, divvying it up between herself and Delia.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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