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redistribute

[ree-di-strib-yoot] / ˌri dɪˈstrɪb jut /


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"The impact was violent enough to redistribute material globally, but not so strong that it would have shattered the moon."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

They also import goods from other countries and redistribute them within Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

For the projects to meaningfully lower bills or boost investment in clean energy, the government would have to introduce specific mechanisms to redistribute some of the revenues generated, Rutter explained.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

They are active systems that can redistribute material throughout their surroundings by drawing gas inward and then returning a substantial portion through jets and winds.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

Like the credit default swap, the CDO had been invented to redistribute the risk of corporate and government bond defaults and was now being rejiggered to disguise the risk of subprime mortgage loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The charity, which redistributes surplus food to about 70 organisations across the region, said it was facing the challenge of meeting growing demand while absorbing higher operating costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Another potential catalyst: SK Hynix redistributes 10% of its operating profit in employee bonuses—a practice Samsung is also beginning to adopt.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Squeezing redistributes this uncertainty by making one property more precise while increasing uncertainty in the other.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026

“There is complexity here. And this is because each time you have an earthquake, it redistributes the stress on the fault, which is going to influence the next earthquake,” Avouac said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025

Its shape changes utterly as the weight redistributes.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Changes to the funding formula for councils under the Fair Funding Review 2.0, external will see money redistributed from some council areas to others.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

During the Progressive Era, when party machine politics dominated, judicial elections were put forward as a reform to promote democratic accountability because they broke up concentrations of power and redistributed it to the people.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

Petno helped put an end to its stand-alone mergers and acquisitions department and redistributed that team across the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Although the ban has been reversed, tracts were redistributed to people, who were often on collective farms, rather than restored to their original owners and those who lost their land were never compensated.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Redemption shifted his stance, and Hibiscus’s hand slid into empty air as Redemption redistributed his weight, just a little but it said enough and it said it loudly.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

By redistributing enormous amounts of heat through the Atlantic, it helps shape regional temperatures, rainfall patterns, sea level, and weather.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Most people hear the question and assume I’m headed toward taxes, universal basic income or some other scheme for redistributing AI’s gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

She has said Wildberries was "focused on redistributing" across its warehouses and "ensuring the financial stability of our partners."

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

I’m worried I may not be diversified enough and may fare better selling and redistributing into less risky index funds.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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