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Recent Examples of reapportion
For the 1932 elections, the House was reapportioned, based on what was constitutionally required: total population figures.
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Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
Universities might try to shore up their science programs by reapportioning support from lower-demand graduate programs in the arts and humanities
A decrease in graduate students could result in fewer teaching assistants to help cover undergraduate classes and lab sections.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Wallace railed against the 1965 Voting Rights Act and federal mandates to reapportion the legislature as attacks on local control.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
The user argued the vote against the bill by House Democrats was a vote to continue giving these immigrants – and give newly arriving ones – representation when seats in the House are reapportioned among the states based on the 2030 census.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
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Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
Universities might try to shore up their science programs by reapportioning support from lower-demand graduate programs in the arts and humanities
A decrease in graduate students could result in fewer teaching assistants to help cover undergraduate classes and lab sections.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Wallace railed against the 1965 Voting Rights Act and federal mandates to reapportion the legislature as attacks on local control.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
The user argued the vote against the bill by House Democrats was a vote to continue giving these immigrants – and give newly arriving ones – representation when seats in the House are reapportioned among the states based on the 2030 census.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reapportion
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Also suggested by the working group was reallocating some funds generated by the Grand Victoria riverboat casino in Elgin to further minimize the budget shortfall.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
31 July 2025
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The project is one of five that Johnson County reallocated money toward last year after Lenexa rejected a years-in-the-making plan to build a homeless shelter using federal COVID relief funds.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
29 July 2025
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But the Supreme Court put off ruling on a challenge to Trump's 2020 effort to to exclude undocumented immigrants from the numbers used for apportioning congressional seats.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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In effect, the new rules allowed the central government on Antigua, rather than the Barbuda Council, to apportion land—leasing it, in the case of Nobu, for 99 years.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
Verb
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All meals are portioned properly, according to the couple.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
12 Aug. 2025
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Make sure to always use a clean knife when portioning butter to keep food particles and bacteria from being introduced.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
27 July 2025
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New references are often tightly allocated, meaning some customers have to wait months or longer for delivery.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
15 Aug. 2025
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For the Western Slope’s water managers, low streamflows mean weekly calls and intense coordination to ensure the water that is available is allocated efficiently and with maximum benefit.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
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This means the Sky will have to waive at least one player to bring in a new guard on a rest-of-season contract, which is prorated based on the amount of time a player serves with a team.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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Customers with recalled air conditioners may contact Midea for a free repair or a full or prorated refund based on the purchase date or the date the product was made.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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The feeders will dispense between four and six pounds of food for the carp four times a day, and commercial fishers contracted by the Minnesota DNR will fish the surrounding area Aug. 4-8, Sept. 2-5 and Sept. 30 to Oct. 3.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Likewise, in Midwestern Enterprises, Inc. v. Stenehjem, the North Dakota Supreme Court addressed a telephone card vending machine that dispensed a two-minute telephone card, plus a chance to win up to $500 in cash for every dollar paid.—
Daniel Wallach,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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But several experts told Newsweek that excluding people living in the country without legal status from the head count used to allocate congressional seats among the states and determine how federal funding is distributed would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Half of it will be distributed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, while the other half will flow to states to then send to hospitals.—
Meg Cunningham,
Kansas City Star,
13 Aug. 2025
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The legislative package will also contain a bill calling for a special election on Nov. 4, 2025, for Californians to approve or reject this plan as well as a bill to reimburse counties for administering the special election.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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The need was greater than the Illinois Housing Development Authority, the group in charge of administering the funds, expected, the agency said, which is why the program closed about three weeks before the end of the last fiscal year.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Reapportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportion. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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