as in to allocate
to give as a share or portion
each speaker was allotted five minutes to present his or her opinion in the debate
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Recent Examples of allot
Fried earned the largest chunk of the money that was allotted for Soto, signing an eight-year, $218 million deal as the Yankees boosted their rotation.
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
The top female name, Olivia, was given to daughters this year only half as often as Liam was allotted to sons.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2025
The chances of being able to obtain a green card that allows permanent legal residence are absurdly low, as there are only 10,000 green cards allotted every year.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 12 May 2025
But historic treaties allotted annual allocations of 7.5 million acre-feet to each domestic basin, as well as 1.5 million acre-feet to Mexico.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 27 May 2025
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
The top female name, Olivia, was given to daughters this year only half as often as Liam was allotted to sons.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2025
The chances of being able to obtain a green card that allows permanent legal residence are absurdly low, as there are only 10,000 green cards allotted every year.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 12 May 2025
But historic treaties allotted annual allocations of 7.5 million acre-feet to each domestic basin, as well as 1.5 million acre-feet to Mexico.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allot
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For comparison, gold accounted for only 19% of total reserves, with 15% allocated in euros and 2% in Chinese renminbi.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
17 June 2025
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Boston Consulting Group found that leading companies are allocating a large portion of their AI investments to reshaping core functions and inventing new offerings.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Two years ago, he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the West LA division.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
24 June 2025
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Consider a few sample tasks assigned to the storage administrator today.—
Nick Burling,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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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
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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
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“Allot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allot. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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