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distribution

[dis-truh-byoo-shuhn] / ˌdɪs trəˈbju ʃən /




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Nearly 26 percent of insect distribution data in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility comes from the United Kingdom alone, even though the majority of the world's insect diversity occurs in tropical regions.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

The clip of the King was taken from a longer video when, as Prince of Wales, he was visiting an Asda supermarket distribution centre in Bristol during the Covid pandemic in July 2020.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

But don’t assume that simply because the account is small you can ignore federal distribution rules.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

If it’s a Roth IRA, the distribution rules are different, and qualified distributions may be tax-free.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

“It’s a quincunx for probability distribution analysis,” says Siraj.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

To that point, check out the Internal Revenue Service’s Publication 590-B on IRA distributions.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

There is also an estate-planning consideration: Roth assets would provide our children with tax-free distributions, whereas traditional retirement accounts could create a tax burden.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The mayor called on the state to restore income-tax distributions to cities and counties to previous, more generous levels.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The researchers tested different combinations of globular cluster characteristics and possible dark matter distributions to determine which scenarios could reproduce the stream's observed appearance.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.

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




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