distributions

plural of distribution
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as in allocations
the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group aid workers oversaw the distribution of supplies to the flood victims

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Recent Examples of distributions To that end, ownership, compensation, distributions and personal guarantees all need to be considered. — Catherine Shanahan, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Other strategies make distributions that may include all three types. — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026 This dynamic, the NCAA insists, could harm athletes and schools outside Ohio, because Ohio schools’ success affects financial distributions. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026 On a technical level, Aaru’s multi-agent simulation software uses modeling and multi-dimensional joint statistical distributions to predict human behavior. — Chuong Nguyen, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Taking larger distributions can cause a retirement portfolio to shrink faster, particularly if those withdrawals occur during a period of weak investment returns. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 People are being warned not to mail checks because of rampant theft, yet brokerages still rely on sending physical checks for certain transactions such as qualified charitable distributions or 401(k) rollovers. — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026 By comparing x+ distributions of the two event classes, the researchers were looking to spot changes in PDF. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026 The sample was weighted using energy balancing, which finds weights by minimizing the energy distance — a statistical measure of the difference between two multivariate distributions — between the survey and the target population. — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distributions
Noun
  • Commitments for the deal are due this week and lenders are still in discussion about allocations, so details about the financing could change.
    — Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • While the survey did not ask how family offices planned to change their allocations around AI, Ringham said that many asset classes are touched by the technology.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Large language models are designed to predict likely sequences of language.
    — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • During one of the film’s most unsettling sequences, the main character, Peter, wakes up in bed disoriented.
    — Arryn Robbins, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • These are songs that iterate and elevate minor party fouls into dramas of symphonic proportion, arrangements that articulate the heightened emotions churning inside anxious minds.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Unlike litigation in federal court, arbitration and mediation are generally conducted outside the public judicial process and often subject to confidentiality arrangements.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Distributions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distributions. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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