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
  • Snap, the parent company of popular messaging platform Snapchat, is planning to reallocate resources to its highest priority initiatives, including increasing its net-income profitability.
    Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
  • At O’Hare, that could mean requiring the combined United-American to reallocate some of its gates to another airline, Speta said.
    Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 14 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
  • My old colleague Peter Holderith tipped this off a few years ago, actually—that automakers should stop trying to cram every feature into one megascreen and portion them out into localized panels that group similar functions together.
    Adam Ismail, The Drive, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Pre-portioning baskets from the start, setting a one-treat-per-day rule after Easter morning and donating or freezing the excess are the strategies parents are actually using.
    Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The budget proposal would allocate nearly $54 billion for military drones and related technology, as well as $21 billion for weapons systems designed to take down enemy drones.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • To support the initiative, Gurnee had allocated $250,000 in its 2026 fiscal year budget, as well as $250,000 from its 2027 fiscal year budget, which was approved at the last Village Board meeting.
    Erin Yarnall, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 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
  • If anything, great public pressure being brought to bear is a terrible reason to dispense with due-process protections designed to protect the legal rights of individuals, and crafting one exception would seem to create a precedent for crafting others.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Theater owners cut prices and dispensed prizes to ticket buyers as the gangsters effectively cross-pollinated with the studio dance numbers.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Department of Education exists, to a large extent, to distribute education funds authorized by Congress.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The northwest suburban village has closed Cornish Park, and has distributed about 5,000 sandbags — with more available to those who need it.
    Natalie McMillan, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In February, the department’s Institute of Education Sciences, which administers the assessments, was gutted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The company launched in 2015 with licensing for 500 HEVC patents and currently administers licenses for almost 29,000.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 Apr. 2026

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“Reapportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportion. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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