reapportion

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Recent Examples of reapportion India’s constitution mandates that parliamentary seats be reapportioned after every census, which normally happens every ten years. Yamini Aiyar, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2025 In New York City’s ranked-choice system, if no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are reapportioned according to their voters’ next preference. Jared Gans, The Hill, 25 June 2025 Following the cancellation, approximately $882 million in BRIC funding will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress during the next fiscal year, according to FEMA. Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 24 May 2025 The statement said about $882 million will be returned or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for reapportion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reapportion
Verb
  • The legislation would also reallocate $30 billion in federal subsidies going to oil and gas companies to instead combat a potential funding gap in the Highway Trust Fund.
    Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • By the end of last fiscal year, about $262 million collected from Measure X had not been spent, with about half locked-in for key projects and about half that county leaders could reallocate to help obviate the need for another tax hike.
    East Bay Times editorial, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • With more parties involved comes more ways to apportion liability, and that can take time since investigators have to determine who may have been at fault based on what factors caused the accident to happen in the first place.
    Will Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2026
  • On the edges of Beirut's stylish downtown area and the trendy Mar Mikhael neighborhood is the devastated port area, wrecked by a massive explosion in 2020, with efforts to apportion responsibility for the disaster allegedly repeatedly stymied by Hezbollah.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Whip up some scones, cookies, or pound cake, and portion them into pastry bags for guests to grab.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2026
  • Brammall says as our food arrives, portioned onto individual plates.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Now, Senate Republicans are pushing an immigration-enforcement funding bill through Congress that would allocate $1 billion of taxpayer dollars to fund his ballroom renovation.
    Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 6 May 2026
  • Over time, the city could introduce structured ways for residents to express priorities for how resources are allocated.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • For salary cap accounting purposes, this lump sum can be prorated (divided evenly) over the length of the contract to spread out the amount that counts against the cap.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Additionally, term lengths vary (some mattresses have lifetime warranties, while others have 10- or 20-year warranties), and some coverages may be prorated over time (the manufacturer may only cover a portion of the repair or replacement cost).
    Sharon Brandwein, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In October, the state of Louisiana asked the 5th US Court of Appeals to reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • That changed during the COVID-19 pandemic — as telemedicine expanded dramatically, FDA began to allow mifepristone to be dispensed at a local pharmacy or through the mail.
    Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • The first wave of Social Security payments for May is scheduled to be distributed this week, following a normal schedule.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • But for the Christmas-week slate, when six of the 16 games were distributed via a premium platform, the league adheres closely to that 87% free model.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • Lifeguards pulled both of them out and administered CPR, but were unsuccessful.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • The indictment accused a defendant of making a false statement in an application for public assistance for a program administered by the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
    Brendan Nordstrom, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2026

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“Reapportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportion. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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