rationing

present participle of ration

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rationing Russian regions, including chunks of Siberia, and Crimea—which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014—put rationing at gas stations in place, the Journal reported. Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 Almost every country on the globe, Axis, Allies, and those pretending like neutrality was a reasonable or pragmatic stance to take, was forced into rationing supplies for civilians. Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 With the Baxter plant down, hospitals around the country began rationing supplies. Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025 Stoner was rationing food, compulsively exercising and then binging, which led to a spiral of shame. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationing
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
  • 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
  • Russia has a long pattern of extrajudicial killings and suspicious deaths of critics, especially journalists and former intelligence officers, but assigning blame is difficult in many cases because of Russian state security.
    Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Lead By Example Too often, tech leaders fail to provide clear direction when assigning complex problems, leaving teams to struggle without guidance and killing morale.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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

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“Rationing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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