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the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group the apportionment of the estate will happen this Friday

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Recent Examples of apportionment The jury assigned apportionment of fault as follows: Newell- 63%, Sunbeam- 27%, and Ms. Perez- 10%. Sponsored Content, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025 Trump's second term is set to end before final decisions have to be made on what questions the 2030 census will ask and who ends up getting included in the apportionment counts. Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025 In a 2020 article, the Pew Research Center examined how removing unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 census apportionment count could affect the reapportionment of House seats. Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024 Minnesota received the last seat in the 2020 apportionment of the House. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for apportionment
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distribution
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  • The league saw nearly 9% revenue distribution growth last year, and the salary cap is projected to continue growing.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 May 2025
  • Coppola is keeping the distribution of the film all in the family, as his nephew Robert Schwartzman’s company Utopia has acquired the North American rights for the film.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025

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“Apportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportionment. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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