reapportion

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Recent Examples of reapportion Universities might try to shore up their science programs by reapportioning support from lower-demand graduate programs in the arts and humanities A decrease in graduate students could result in fewer teaching assistants to help cover undergraduate classes and lab sections. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 Wallace railed against the 1965 Voting Rights Act and federal mandates to reapportion the legislature as attacks on local control. Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024 The user argued the vote against the bill by House Democrats was a vote to continue giving these immigrants – and give newly arriving ones – representation when seats in the House are reapportioned among the states based on the 2030 census. Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024 The exciting question, for friends of a free Ukraine, is what the Ukrainians do once the Kremlin reapportions its surviving A-50s and inevitably leaves a gap in its aerial radar coverage. David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for reapportion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reapportion
Verb
  • This reframing is crucial: allyship is about expanding opportunity, not reallocating it in a punitive way.
    Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • That power is granted to the executive under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and allows the president to respond quickly to foreign crises by reallocating U.S. military supplies.
    Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • By breaking out of one customer’s isolated VM environment, a threat actor could take control of the hypervisor that apportions each VM.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The 435 House seats in Congress are apportioned to the states based on total population, including military personnel and U.S. government civilians temporarily deployed outside the state during a census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • The main preparation room is strategically located adjacent to the walk-in freezer, which includes large bins of pre-mixed and portioned cookies prepared at the bakery’s central production facility.
    Camila Pedrosa July 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2025
  • The rate is based on an assessment of each property’s future benefit to improvements and to portion out costs among property owners.
    Mason Rouser, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Roughly $106 million in federal funds that support underserved children are in limbo for Tennessee after the U.S. Department of Education missed a key deadline to allocate the money.
    Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 10 July 2025
  • The third would appropriate relief and recovery funding to assist Hill Country flood victims, including allocating local match funding for jurisdictions eligible for FEMA public assistance.
    Bethany Blankley, The Washington Examiner, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • This means the Sky will have to waive at least one player to bring in a new guard on a rest-of-season contract, which is prorated based on the amount of time a player serves with a team.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
  • Customers with recalled air conditioners may contact Midea for a free repair or a full or prorated refund based on the purchase date or the date the product was made.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • But over the weekend, Trump reiterated his desire to dispense with any further talks and unilaterally set a tariff rate on each country.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 June 2025
  • One study reported a 4.1% decline in oral contraceptives dispensed in those states.
    Carol S. Weisman, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • It will be distributed inside Gate A, the Royals said.
    Pete Grathoff July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2025
  • The uncertain state of Tehran highlights the trickiness of distributing a TV show ripped from geopolitical headlines — particularly when that distributor has a much larger business around the world than just airing television shows.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • The national rollout will replicate the local model, with auditions and performances administered through public school districts and education foundations.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • The audit also found DCEO failed to administer a program to prepare people prior to their release from from Illinois prisons for work in the clean energy arena.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025

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“Reapportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportion. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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