lotting

present participle of lot

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The Legislature has barely funded guardianship services, allotting just enough in its budget the past two years to maintain a statewide hotline.
    Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools for five years, diverting tax monies to build a K-12 private academy for 1,400 white students and allotting their families tuition grants.
    Essence, Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In assigning him that seemingly perverse task, Scorsese tapped into the vague air of vacuity at the center of a star who’s always seemed present and absent all at once.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the district pushed on with assigning Rupert to a different school.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The commission would oversee allocating the money to schools and teachers at any city school that complies with requirements for doing the training well.
    Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The law, passed in the state Legislature this year, allows families to apply for subsidies to attend private school, allocating up to $50 million a year for those tax credits.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Attorneys for the Justice Department argued that halting the reallocations could delay distributing the funds to other states DHS had identified as higher priority under its new approach.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The project was originally inspired by a brochure, In Case of Emergency or War, which the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security began distributing to the public a few weeks before the invasion in early 2022.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Lotting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lotting. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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