reapportion

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Recent Examples of reapportion 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 The House has been similarly reapportioned every ten years since. Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reapportion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reapportion
Verb
  • 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
  • But most of the spectators in the crowd are locals, who reallocate their spending from other area merchants, rather than generating new commercial activity.
    J.C. Bradbury, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 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
  • There are 1,000 total combinations, and they are distributed based on where teams finish in the standings.
    Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Many of the callers thank him for the Zeta license plates (70,000 were distributed in the past two years).
    Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Burnard and O’Shaughnessy point out that, whereas Britain regularly sent nobles to govern the Caribbean colonies—and dukes and earls to Ireland—the men appointed to administer the thirteen colonies more often lacked titles and were paid less.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The treasurer administers critical wealth-building programs like CalSavers, CalKIDS, ScholarShare 529 and CalABLE.
    Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

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“Reapportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportion. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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