apportions

present tense third-person singular of apportion

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Recent Examples of apportions The fires underscore this failure, but no policy that apportions the state’s supply among those claimants could have saved the communities destroyed by fire over the last week. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025 Nebraska is heavily Republican overall but is one of two states — the other is Maine — that apportions its Electoral College votes by congressional district. L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apportions
Verb
  • DirecTV still retains the commercial package that EverPass distributes.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Paramount Global Content Distribution distributes the series.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Resistant to seeking full-time employment that would exhaust his writing time, Paul instead signs up to a website that assigns one-off menial jobs — yard work, rubble removal, flatpack furniture assembly — to the freelancer willing to work for the lowest possible rate.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The solution is to create a centralized close playbook that defines every recurring task, assigns clear owners and establishes deadlines.
    Shagun Malhotra, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The bestselling floral-gourmand Detour has arrived in a magnetic, refillable bullet, which dispenses a soft balm with notes of vanilla, plum, and amber.
    Dan Michel, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In the chaos Tyler escapes his bonds, quickly dispenses with his old handler/master/groomer Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci) and goes after Wednesday, throwing her through a second story window and leaving her bleeding on the pavement.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Signed into law in June, the bill allocates $100 million in state general obligation bonds for school construction for counties with 15,000 residents or less.
    Erica Mosca, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The company allocates over 40 percent of its sponsorship dollars to women’s sports and features a roster of brand ambassadors such as Caitlin Clark, Billie Jean King and former USWNT goalkeeper Briana Scurry.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That’s not all though; the inside of the bag offers a center zippered compartment, which divides the interior into three separate sections to organize your essentials.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In a nutshell, OFDMA divides channels into resource units (RUs), allowing for smaller data packets that can be transmitted to multiple users simultaneously.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The site provides links to 14 private and government groups that accept and act on complaints, including the FBI, the Better Business Bureau, the Social Security Administration, AARP, the SEC, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This new framework provides the immigration official with greater flexibility and discretion.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Apportions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportions. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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