PORTIONED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

portioned

verb

past tense of portion

as in distributed

to give out (something) to appropriate individuals portioned out the medical supplies equally

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Recent Examples of portioned Instead of making last-minute pet store runs, many owners are choosing subscription meal plans that arrive automatically and are portioned specifically for their dogs. — Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026 The roasted chiles, cleaned or not, can be portioned into zip-top or vacuum seal bags and frozen for up to two years. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026 Buttery and flaky, these individual strawberry desserts are perfectly portioned for your next cookout. — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 3 July 2026 For someone trying to pull that off on a Tuesday night, having the ingredients already portioned and waiting in the freezer is the difference between cooking and ordering takeout. — Ascend Agency, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026 Each dish is wonderfully prepared and portioned. — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 Their final shape, round and big as racquetballs, came together when Dale portioned the dough balls into a silicone half-dome mold. — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 2 June 2026 Both can be a part of a heart-healthy snack when portioned well. — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026 Brammall says as our food arrives, portioned onto individual plates. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026

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The group has constructed more than 820 all-terrain wheelchairs; fabricated 900 orthotics and prosthetics; and distributed more than 740 hearing aids.

— Allie Torgan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The decline in applications was unevenly distributed across institutions, with data suggesting a larger cushion for the most competitive universities than for those with a lower global profile.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of distributed

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Standard treatment of anaphylaxis is a shot of epinephrine — commonly dispensed in an Epi-Pen — followed by a trip to the emergency room.

— Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026
That’s the takeaway from an incident in the small city of Chuzhou, China, after a large langue model dispensed some advice that led to the untimely death of 25 acres worth of produce.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 12 Aug. 2026

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Men’s domestic cricket in Pakistan, aside from a brief spell from 2019 to 2023 while former Test captain Imran Khan was the country’s prime minister and instigated change, is divided between teams from regions and departments.

— Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Customer data, inventory visibility, budgets, and decision rights should not remain divided by channel.

— Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of divided

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The team was not able to recover nuclear DNA, which would have provided more detailed information.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Many are directed towards Ryan Giles, their attack-minded left-back, who regularly pushes forward on the overlap and provided eight league assists last season (illustrated below).

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of provided

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Building a Better California has also allocated a large chunk of its massive war chest to reserve $87 million worth of advertising time ahead of the November election to sway public opinion, the New York Times reported last month.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
Yet the ones that are less successful tend to be more allocated.

— Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of allocated

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The study involved a personalized cancer vaccine called Intismeran, produced by Merck and Moderna, administered in combination with Merck’s cancer immunotherapy Keytruda.

— Aria Bendix, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2026
On Wednesday, Colorado released results from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS), PSAT and SAT tests administered to public school students across the state this past spring.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

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