as in dividing
to divide (something) among a group in a different way
Unused federal funds will be redistributed to other states. We need to redistribute the duties among ourselves; some of us are working too hard, and others are hardly working at all.
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Recent Examples of redistributing
If the answer is a name, the company is redistributing real power.
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Caroline Fairchild, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The study suggests those giant sloshing motions may help regulate how the cluster cools over time by redistributing heat through the intracluster gas, alongside energy injected by the active supermassive black hole at the center of IC 1101, which is one of the most massive known to date.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 May 2026
The former official estimated that the state has seized around $60 billion in assets from private businessmen over the past three years, either outright nationalizing their property or redistributing it to cronies.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 May 2026
The federal government already operates systems for redistributing or selling surplus property.
—Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
The goal should be upward mobility, not redistributing outcomes.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
Just dialing up the rate of dark matter–baryon interactions reshapes the halo from the inside out, redistributing mass in the galaxy’s core in under a billion years.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
What this means for the wider economy The AI and data center boom is redistributing capital, supplier attention and pricing power across the broader economy.
—Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
Interventions that support health — like sleep, diet, exercise, and meditation — are ways of increasing and redistributing energy within the body.
—Jasna Hodžić, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Caroline Fairchild, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The study suggests those giant sloshing motions may help regulate how the cluster cools over time by redistributing heat through the intracluster gas, alongside energy injected by the active supermassive black hole at the center of IC 1101, which is one of the most massive known to date.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 May 2026
The former official estimated that the state has seized around $60 billion in assets from private businessmen over the past three years, either outright nationalizing their property or redistributing it to cronies.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 May 2026
The federal government already operates systems for redistributing or selling surplus property.
—Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
The goal should be upward mobility, not redistributing outcomes.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
Just dialing up the rate of dark matter–baryon interactions reshapes the halo from the inside out, redistributing mass in the galaxy’s core in under a billion years.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
What this means for the wider economy The AI and data center boom is redistributing capital, supplier attention and pricing power across the broader economy.
—Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
Interventions that support health — like sleep, diet, exercise, and meditation — are ways of increasing and redistributing energy within the body.
—Jasna Hodžić, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redistributing
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The encounter, captured on video, quickly gained international attention, dividing those who believed the zoo was in the right to kill Harambe for the child's safety, and others who found the act inhumane.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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By 1997, Ultimate Fighting began to join more conventional combat sports in dividing fighters into weight classes, for safety’s sake.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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Ebola response interventions include installing handwashing units in health facilities, schools and critical transit sites and distributing thermometers, chlorine and other supplies to treat water.—
Maryanne Murray Buechner,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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One of the two doctors who pleaded guilty to distributing the ketamine to Perry, Salvador Plasencia, was sentenced to 30 months in prison.—
Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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The United States need not choose between accepting stalemate, providing aid to Ukraine indefinitely, or escalating directly against Russian forces.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Most comes from the company's Starlink data/communications services, with a constellation of over 7,000 active satellites and over 10 million subscribers in markets that were previously dominated by a handful of satcom companies providing limited coverage for astronomical rates.—
David Szondy
May 31,
New Atlas,
31 May 2026
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McKinnon said Okta is allocating more resources to tools like Okta for AI agents and Net-zero for AI agents as companies adopt agentic AI and demand more security defenses.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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The objective of the Midas List is to identify the investors demonstrating the strongest judgment in allocating that capital.—
TrueBridge Capital,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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The Olive Bar opens to tables on the patio in warmer months and has a menu of sharing plates to pair with a drink.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Recently, she’s begun to feel physically sick due to everything going on in her life and is sharing with us that she’s been struggling with getting up, eating and other simple, everyday things.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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