lotted

past tense of lot

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Verb
  • Open daily for dinner (two hours allotted per party), with lunch service added on Sundays.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • More resources should be allotted for staff to respond to requests for corrections.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
Verb
  • Salazar said a pilot monitors the radio and can dispatch a drone before a call is even assigned to a patrol officer, with live video feeding directly to officers’ mobile computers and phones.
    Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • While each has been assigned a name — Wilsis, Laura Asia, Carlota and Julia — their true personalities come out in the way Plensa has depicted them, with their eyes closed and in some apparent state of peaceful meditation.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • To create a dedicated space for art—which had previously been tucked in with the dinosaur bones at the Natural History Museum—the county allocated a ten-acre site, next to the La Brea Tar Pits, along Wilshire Boulevard, at a midway point between downtown and the beach.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • Those buyers are a key part of SpaceX’s strategy in the IPO, with as much as 30% of the $75 billion offering allocated to the group, Bloomberg News has reported.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • It is also being distributed internationally and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and three Greenlandic dialects.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
  • The awards celebrate the independent music business, and some 38 awards were distributed throughout the evening, with hometown heroes Geese and French electronic musician Oklou taking home record of the year and pop record of the year, respectively, among multiple wins.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 June 2026
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“Lotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lotted. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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