How to Use misallocation in a Sentence
misallocation
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And there’s a lot of misallocation that goes on in this process.
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 7 Nov. 2018
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With the passage of Obamacare, the misallocation got even worse.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
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Is that some kind of weird misallocation of public affection and regard for the icons involved?
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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But hell doesn’t have as many circles of dysfunction, and the root cause is the political misallocation of resources.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2017
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Decades of capital misallocation and misuse have put China Inc. in a fix.
—Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
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This has produced a world trade imbalance through the misallocation of capital and savings.
—WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
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Regarding the new bill, a spokesperson for the company dismissed the legislation as a misallocation of time and resources.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
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There's just a lot of misallocation of economic resources.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2021
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As in that book, The Premonition renders the crisis of the moment as a long-gestating case study in the misallocation of policy imagination.
—Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 May 2021
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But forcing insurance companies to pay up to 20 times the retail rate for tests creates a sizable moral hazard problem and misallocation of resources that should not be ignored.
—Cameron Kaplan, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
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Critics point to a misallocation of capital: Money spent on buybacks is money that isn’t invested in projects that fuel longer-term success.
—Ryan Derousseau, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
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To end the misallocation of resources caused by small-business cronyism, public policy should be guided by the principle of size neutrality.
—Robert D. Atkinson, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
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This biofuel profit premium is driving the sort of capital misallocation that the World Bank noted last week in a report on economic growth and inflation.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 June 2022
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Not all companies do or will disclose without a mandatory framework, raising the cost, or resulting in the misallocation, of capital.
—Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
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The figures represent more than just a disastrous misallocation of need and want, given that 10 percent of people in the world are chronically undernourished.
—David Segal, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
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In this view, the problem isn’t the American public’s veneration of the armed services above all other institutions, or the gross misallocation of resources and preemptive wars that this abets — or even the concept of a military parade, per se.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
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More important, though, this misallocation of resources will hurt everyday Americans who buy stocks such as Nikola.
—Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
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The costs of the Federal Reserve’s zero-interest policy are multiplying: The misallocation of capital—goosing the price of the riskiest and least-productive of assets—set the conditions for boom and bust.
—Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
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This perverse misallocation of resources does lead to some morbidly funny outcomes.
—Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
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So there is naturally going to be a misallocation of capital away from companies that may need financing.
—Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
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This means our amenities come with strings attached and harmful consequences, like misallocation of money or neglect of poorer communities.
—Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
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The misallocation of resources during the booms requires a prolonged and miserable process of reallocation during and after a recession.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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Over the past decade, state auditors have discovered misallocation of funds by scores of New York preschool special education providers, including seven companies that serve yeshivas.
—Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
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Inaccurate counts paint a distorted picture of the makeup of our communities and result in a misallocation of resources vital to families.
—Rebecca Tippett, Vox, 27 June 2019
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Raising taxes on business only makes that misallocation worse.
—Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 21 Oct. 2020
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Traveling vigilantly, only to arrive at someone’s home and act as though there is no pandemic is a serious misallocation of anxiety.
—James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2020
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That misallocation of blame that took Strange down will soon metastasize into a vicious cycle for Republican incumbents everywhere.
—Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
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Deficit spending exacerbates the risk of government misallocation of resources.
—Rick Miller, Forbes, 24 June 2021
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Conversations held after mass shootings typically tend to focus on background checks, but, given that mass shooters almost always pass those checks, this represents a chronic misallocation of effort.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2022
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Several subsequent Games were met with resistance and with citizens arguing against a misallocation of public resources.
—Dvora Meyers, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2020
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