metered

past tense of meter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for metered
Verb
  • Free transfers are the key currency in Fantasy Premier League, meaning any moves in the game have to be measured.
    Holly Shand, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Gas prices, as measured by AAA, looked destined to break through the psychologically important $3-a-gallon level.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Following the Chiefs’ 31-0 humiliation of the visiting Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, Andy Reid dispensed with his normally exhaustive postgame rundown of individual accolades.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Most notably, every penny appropriated by Congress is dispensed by the OMB, making the agency a potential choke point in a federal bureaucracy that currently spends about $7 trillion a year.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The project is administered by Local Media Foundation, tax ID #36‐4427750, a Section 501(c)(3) charitable trust affiliated with Local Media Association.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Unemployment compensation is continuing during the shutdown, as it’s administered by state agencies rather than the federal government.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Membership in the Ozark Hill Hikers is $12 a year prorated $1 for each month remaining in the calendar year.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Under long-standing HUD regulations, such families are permitted to live in public housing or receive vouchers, but their benefits are prorated so that the ineligible members receive no assistance and the family pays a greater share of the rent.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Phillips also asked that their assets be divided up by the court as separate property, with no indication in the papers that the exes had a prenup in place.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But like other governer races, voters are divided along partisan lines.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Doral Hurricane Relief Drive at GEM GEM is partnering with the Miami Foundation, South Florida Caribbean Strong and the Caribbean Bar Association to collect, sort and pack donations to be distributed in Jamaica.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, Kanawati Stephany told WUNC that North Carolina's seven Feeding the Carolinas food banks distributed 250 million meals over the past year.
    The NPR Network, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of weeks allotted for each wave of creative development, the client directed us to present new names every few days.
    Anthony Shore, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Each of us was allotted a small piece of bread for breakfast and a modest portion of rice or pasta for lunch.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Packed with plenty of tech, the standard Honda 9-inch infotainment system is utilized in our Civic Hatchback Hybrid Sport Touring and was easy to use as the color display was simple and nicely apportioned for all age ranges.
    Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Interest is not eligible for the section 954(c)(6) exception to the extent the deduction for the interest payment is allocated and apportioned under section 882(c) and reg.
    Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Metered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metered. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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