reapportioning

verb

present participle of reapportion
as in reallocating

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  1. apportioning
  2. allocating
  3. prorating
  4. dispensing
  5. distributing
  6. administering
  7. dividing
  8. splitting
Verb
  • The fungibility of the hands is a reprieve from the book’s scenes of violence and its fallout, from the endless assigning of blame and the apportioning out of mercy or destruction.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of apportioning
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  • So to say that another way, plants are taking up all of this carbon from our atmosphere and then allocating about thirteen billion tons of that to networks every year.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This funding has helped, but allocating more money to public schools isn’t the only way to make progress.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of allocating
Verb
  • Denver could cut his cap number almost in half by guaranteeing him $8-10 million, paying it as a bonus and prorating it out.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The players don’t lose any money, but the team gets to reduce their cap numbers by prorating the signing bonus over the term of the contracts.
    — Jonathan M. Alexander, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2026
Definition of prorating
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  • Dressings and sauces in dispensing bottles did not have the common name of the foods.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Eco effort The resort is actively addressing concerns regarding single-use plastic bottles and is working to introduce water dispensing units in the near future.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of dispensing
Verb
  • Under the White House pool system, the networks -- ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC -- rotate responsibilities for gathering and distributing footage of the president's daily movements.
    — Miriam Waldvogel, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
  • At a church in Pensacola where the United Cajun Navy was distributing supplies Sunday morning, a line of hundreds of cars stretched around the block.
    — Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of distributing
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  • When the second dose did not kill Pike, Tennessee’s single-drug execution protocol prevented authorities from administering a third dose.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • More importantly, since the lethal injection protocol requires an intravenous line insertion, the person administering it has to be competent in IV infusion.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of administering
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  • In the accompanying video (above), Kondo also describes an ambition to coordinate multiple drones, sharing observations and dividing search tasks.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Since rates are computed by dividing the number of cases by the population at risk in a specified time period, then by definition, if the number of cases stays the same but the size of the denominator shrinks, the rates will be higher.
    — Nancy Krieger, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of dividing
Verb
  • Beyond splitting up different foods and drinks, the dual-compartment design is also meant so that users can quickly access beverages without pulling the entire cooler out of the car.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Around them, construction of a new road is splitting the town between those who welcome change and those who see it as an assault on the way things have always been.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of splitting
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“Reapportioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportioning. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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