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Recent Examples of prorate Membership in the Ozark Hill Hikers is $12 per year prorated $1 for each month remaining in the calendar year. Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 6 May 2025 In September 2023, Hill began renting Crown’s Corner Mechanic’s 9,000-square-foot space, initially receiving two months prorated before paying $6,375 monthly. Ashton Jackson eric Clark, CNBC, 31 May 2025 This is set to be prorated for the number of days the ships are in Hawaii's ports. Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025 Byrd, whose salary was prorated starting from April 22, will receive $95,000 this year; $96,900 in 2026; $98,38 in 2027 and $100,814 in 2028, according to an agreement unanimously approved by the Town Council. Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for prorate
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Verb
  • Israel says Hamas steals and sells food from the U.N. and other traditional aid agencies, and that GHF distributes food to civilians under Israeli military supervision without Hamas involvement.
    Daniel Estrin, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • Instead, the only surviving claim in this case concerns Meta's controversial torrenting of books to train Llama, which authors have so far successfully alleged may have violated copyright laws by distributing their works as part of the torrenting process.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • Gi-hun’s Kill Count Plenty of players are content to dispense with societal decorum and start fully murdering each other in the Games — but not Gi-hun.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
  • Now, Israel may be happy to dispense with its Patriots without acknowledgment.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
Verb
  • Billions for border security Both the Senate and the House bills allocate $46.5 billion toward completing Trump's border wall.
    Elena Moore, NPR, 28 June 2025
  • For border security and immigration enforcement, the package allocates $350 billion, including $46 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and $45 billion for 100,000 migrant detention facility beds.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • The brand’s production is divided between Paris and Istanbul, the latter being a city with family ties for India.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 30 June 2025
  • The Oval Office’s ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ has divided opinion, after estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the policies would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • Others will be looking to you for guidance this month, and your ability to provide stability will set the tone for what’s to come.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
  • Speaking of recruitment, Paulson believes a realigned schedule would also provide a boost, allowing MLS clubs could be more competitive in the global summer transfer window.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • In about half a dozen large states where county governments administer federal safety net programs, the costs of training caseworkers on the new verification protocols could trickle from states to counties.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 26 June 2025
  • Officers administered Narcan and attempted CPR, but she was declared dead a few minutes later.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • Consider a few sample tasks assigned to the storage administrator today.
    Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Two years ago, he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the West LA division.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • The 435 House seats in Congress are apportioned to the states based on total population, including military personnel and U.S. government civilians temporarily deployed outside the state during a census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
  • The Trump administration is facing pressure to restore a public website that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies and that lawmakers on both sides say is required by law.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 12 May 2025

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“Prorate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prorate. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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