as in allocated
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 allotted
Bass allotted roughly $29 million for the department in her budget proposal released Monday.
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
The more flights in and out of O'Hare, the more gates an airline is allotted.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
When funds are available because a different project came in under the amount it had been allotted, the county is able to move those funds to another project.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Taylor Frankie Paul has filed a counter temporary restraining order against ex Dakota Mortensen — both of whom have accused each other of recent domestic violence — as a judge issued a temporary custody arrangement dictating how much time she’s allotted with their toddler son.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2026
Each astronaut has two nonwater beverages allotted to them per day, according to NASA.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
For the past decade, the Rock Hall has allotted one spot on the shortlist for a capital-H hip-hop artist.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
The deal did not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement or border security operations through Customs and Border Protection, although those DHS agencies have funding allotted through 2029 via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
The result is the game Straight4 and publisher Giants should’ve launched in the first place, or at least allotted themselves the time to finish.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 25 Mar. 2026
Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
The more flights in and out of O'Hare, the more gates an airline is allotted.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
When funds are available because a different project came in under the amount it had been allotted, the county is able to move those funds to another project.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
Taylor Frankie Paul has filed a counter temporary restraining order against ex Dakota Mortensen — both of whom have accused each other of recent domestic violence — as a judge issued a temporary custody arrangement dictating how much time she’s allotted with their toddler son.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2026
Each astronaut has two nonwater beverages allotted to them per day, according to NASA.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
For the past decade, the Rock Hall has allotted one spot on the shortlist for a capital-H hip-hop artist.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
The deal did not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement or border security operations through Customs and Border Protection, although those DHS agencies have funding allotted through 2029 via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
The result is the game Straight4 and publisher Giants should’ve launched in the first place, or at least allotted themselves the time to finish.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for allotted
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Tickets to the conference and luncheon, scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, will once again be largely allocated to those with the most $TRUMP coins, but the price to acquire them has become significantly cheaper.—
Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Since 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) has allocated more than $439 million to domestic REE processing and magnet manufacturing projects.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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When the Chicago office, which had about fifty lawyers, was closed, all of its cases, totalling in the thousands, were assigned to a single lawyer in Denver.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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In his order, Nunley recounted the attorney’s claim he’d been assigned more than 300 nearly identical cases in the last three months, all of immigrants in detention who argued they were being held without cause.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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Opponents have distributed campaign materials citing past statements from Obama and Spanberger criticizing gerrymandering, but those were before Trump pushed Republican states to redraw their congressional maps in advance of this year's midterms.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The rear ramp can handle about 70,500 pounds per load, so payloads must be distributed across multiple pallets.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Allotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allotted. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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