How to Use distributive in a Sentence

distributive

adjective

• The state collects the income tax, and doles it out to local government from the distributive fund.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 11 Aug. 2017
• The sale money will help make up for fewer local government distributive fund dollars coming in from the state, Krieger said.
  — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 6 June 2018
• The second view reframes climate change as a distributive conflict.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021
• But nobody should have that power to do that and then be able to exercise distributive, control over the distribution and control over the content too.
  — Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2007
• The report should include the distributive impacts of any new measure, and the use of tax return information is meant to make the regime administrable.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• In a distributive bargain, one player tries to extract as many concessions from the other without ceding anything in return.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 May 2019
• This is why welfare-state answers to the basic questions about material distributive justice have not calmed our politics.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 17 July 2019
• Or does the distributive property suddenly no longer apply?
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2019
• Thursday, Aidan and I spent an hour arguing about the distributive property for math, and another conjugating hablar for Spanish.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• That included the number of staff positions, mail sent to their constituents, trips home, earmarks and other distributive spending, bill sponsorship and co-sponsorship, among others.
  — Danny Hayes, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• The entire operation allowed students to have a strong visual and hands-on experience for learning the distributive property.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
• But in 1960, the Russian mathematician Anatoly Karatsuba found a new limit, using his own application of the distributive law to find a more efficient way to multiply.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2019
• A non-Equity theater, Broken Nose is more egalitarian in its distributive systems.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
• Opening the world’s borders would be an act of revenue-generating humanitarianism—a form of laissez-faire global distributive justice, on the order of seventy-five trillion dollars a year.
  — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
• He was highly regarded as one of the most talented midfielders of his generation, with his impressive distributive skills underpinning his playing style.
  — SI.com, 9 July 2019
• Most negotiations can be characterized as either distributive, or integrative.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 May 2019

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024