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or parcelled (out)
as in distributed
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals
parceled out the assignments for work on the parish fair
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parceled (out)
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Opponents have distributed campaign materials citing past statements from Obama and Spanberger criticizing gerrymandering, but those were before Trump pushed Republican states to redraw their congressional maps in advance of this year's midterms.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026 -
The rear ramp can handle about 70,500 pounds per load, so payloads must be distributed across multiple pallets.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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Ernesto was an activist who dispensed food and medicine in Salvadoran refugee camps.—
Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
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The need for the list took on new urgency in 2012, when more than 60 people died from fungal meningitis infections contracted from a drug produced at a compounding facility and dispensed to hundreds of people.—
Anjeanette Damon,
ProPublica,
3 Apr. 2026
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In Budapest ahead of the vote, people were divided on whether Orbán’s long political rule could really come to an end.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
11 Apr. 2026
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Dining on one popular cruise ship is getting a comfort-food shakeup — and passengers are divided over the change.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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On the same day that David Zaslav‘s platinum parachute for the Paramount merger was rejected in a non-binding vote by Warner Bros Discovery shareholders, California handed out some cash that could actually be of real help to the home of Hollywood.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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After the competition ended and awards were handed out, the participants packed up and got ready to head home.—
Amy Stark Shireman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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Scalping tickets wasn’t new, of course, but Kahn believed that its formalization online provided sports teams, and other entertainment businesses, with valuable information about demand that could enable them to make more money without alienating their most loyal fans.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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But the endorsement in a safe Democratic district is unlikely to attract the major expenditures and outreach that UNITE HERE has provided in battleground states and districts.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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Tickets to the conference and luncheon, scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, will once again be largely allocated to those with the most $TRUMP coins, but the price to acquire them has become significantly cheaper.—
Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Since 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) has allocated more than $439 million to domestic REE processing and magnet manufacturing projects.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Parceled (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parceled%20%28out%29. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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