prorating

present participle of prorate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of prorating But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder. Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prorating
Verb
  • If National Public Radio had begun distributing Bibles and handguns, well, people would have wanted to talk and write about that, too.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This is how Cintas Acuario was born in the late 1980s — a label that, without any formal facilities, gained a reputation thanks to its founder’s knack for promoting and marketing his artists’ music by distributing it to small shops in the area and in Tijuana, across the Mexican border.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then hit the autofill button, and the nozzle lowers down to just over the rim of the glass and starts dispensing.
    PCMag Staff, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • From interactive games to snuffle mats and treat-dispensing toys, there are plenty of puzzles out there on the market.
    Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The solution is to rejuvenate your plants every two to three years by digging and dividing the clump.
    Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The main way to do that is by selling their tickets in virtually every state, rather than dividing up the country into different competing territories.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Washington alone can’t win a Senate race, but Democratic groups and leaders will be pivotal in allocating resources to Maine and flooding the airwaves against Collins.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As a result, Apple is hedging its bet and allocating just 10% of its production for it, The Information reports.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, advocates say that the two are complementary, with SMRs providing dependable power that can adjust to inherently variable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
    Anna Heim, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Partnerships bitBiome has already found success with a number of partners including Ajinomoto, a Japanese company that has been providing enzymes to the food processing industry for many decades.
    Steven Savage, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some state laws also prevent pharmacists from administering vaccines that haven’t been recommended by ACIP—a snarl that’s prompted pharmacies to limit access to COVID vaccines in more than a dozen states.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The process involves harvesting cells from various sources and administering them to the body to repair tissue.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Prorating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prorating. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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