apportioned

past tense of apportion

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Recent Examples of apportioned Females, minors &c are excluded from the polls, but are included in the enumeration of persons on whom representation is apportioned. Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026 The judge recommended specific amounts for two of the firm’s partners to pay — up to $58,000 by Andrew Bramhall and Brian Cannon — and said the shares apportioned to the other two partners, Margaret Shyr and Victoria Maroulis, would be determined later. Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 27 May 2026 The tickets will be apportioned via a ballot and will only be available to New York City residents, following on from Mamdani’s campaign demand during his mayoral run for locals to be given greater access by FIFA to this summer’s tournament. Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2026 Packed with plenty of tech, the standard Honda 9-inch infotainment system is utilized in our Civic Hatchback Hybrid Sport Touring and was easy to use as the color display was simple and nicely apportioned for all age ranges. Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025 Interest is not eligible for the section 954(c)(6) exception to the extent the deduction for the interest payment is allocated and apportioned under section 882(c) and reg. Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 If the seats were apportioned by vote, instead of by gerrymandered districts, the California delegation would be 32 Democrats and 20 Republicans. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 Removing undocumented immigrants from the census’s population count would likely impact the number of House seats apportioned to multiple states—including both Texas and California. Solcyré Burga, Time, 7 Aug. 2025 But how blue and red teams might be apportioned for AI—and what motivates the players in this whole exercise to ultimately act toward, ideally, furthering the public good—is unclear. IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apportioned
Verb
  • In declining the option, the Hawks now have access to all of the $15 million allotted to their nontaxpayer midlevel exception.
    Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 29 June 2026
  • This thing is seriously massive, featuring way too many goodies to list in the space allotted here.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • The Huntington cultivates them on-site and has distributed many to botanic gardens and zoos across the country.
    Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • But the crowding is not distributed equally — in 2025, the busiest 10 national parks fielded more than half of all national park visits.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • You will be given a deadline to make full payment for the tickets; otherwise, they will be allocated to another ballot entrant.
    Fiona Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
  • Cost analysts review each line of a utility company’s costs, often thousands of items, and determine how each cost will be allocated.
    Theodore J. Kury, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Over that period, affiliates dispensed about 25% fewer packs of birth control pills and conducted about 20% fewer breast cancer exams than the previous year.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Specialty drugs come from the wave of new biologic medicines and other prescriptions not dispensed in the traditional pharmacy like pills, capsules and tablets typically picked up at Walgreens or CVS Health drugstores.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • Additional programmable keys can be assigned to common functions such as push-to-talk, sending prompts, or accepting and rejecting code changes.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
  • At all meals, tables aren't assigned, and guests frequently dine with new friends.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Using her family’s interests as her guide, Gardner divided the yard into distinct zones, with room to entertain, grow vegetables and flowers, and relax.
    Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026
  • Rather than uniting America’s founders, slavery divided the authors of both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as a moral issue.
    Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Businesses have provided direct contributions surpassing $32 million.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
  • Occhiuto’s office provided the AP with a photo of him meeting Hammer.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
Verb
  • An investigation by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners found that while the three medications were administered in non-fatal doses, Hemphill failed to acknowledge the way the drugs would act when combined, according to the warrant.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
  • The person who died was taken to the shore severely injured and, despite CPR being administered, was pronounced dead, officials said.
    Tristan Maglunog, ABC News, 15 July 2026

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