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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divvying (up)
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While in Houston, organizers had partnered with Planned Parenthood to set up a booth on the venue grounds with reps handing out condoms.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Sep. 2025 -
The 2027 cap-space landscape will shift across the NBA as teams begin handing out extensions, making trades and signing free agents next summer.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Even before she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (2002), the 95-year-old actor had been a go-to Everygrandma, doling out enough geriatric sass to make the Golden Girls bow down yet doing so in the most polite, Midwestern way imaginable.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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Consider the absurdity of carving a single oozing arancini into three or four pieces, doling out two measly salad leaves each to a foursome, or hacking a pristine fish fillet into chum for five.—
Maggie Hennessy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Chase Infiniti’s breakout performance has generated significant word-of-mouth but positioning her in lead leaves more room for co-stars Teyana Taylor and Regina Hall in supporting roles, and less of a chance of a classic vote-splitting dilemma that has derailed campaigns in the past.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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The two dated for only a few months before splitting sometime in 2024.—
Amy McCarthy,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold.—
USA TODAY Network,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Sep. 2025
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This amount is expressed by dividing the share price by the company’s earnings per share to get the price-to-earnings ratio.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Divvying (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divvying%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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