1
as in to allot
to give as a share or portion
not enough computers to allocate one to every student
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as in to distribute
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals
allocated the housework in such a way that the older kids got more than the younger ones
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as in to dedicate
to keep or intend for a special purpose
sliced the strawberries after first allocating all the nicest ones for the top of the cake
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Recent Examples of allocate
Teams are more settled, and roles are better allocated.
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Sam Vecenie, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
The federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which subsidizes utility costs for qualifying households, was allocated $3.7 billion as part of an appropriations bill President Joe Biden signed in September.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
Yet political disagreements have prevented Congress from modernizing the 1965 legislation, allocating appropriate resources, and correcting this disconnect.
—Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The ability to identify potentially dangerous individuals swiftly allows border agencies to allocate resources more effectively, preventing human errors and ensuring the integrity of the immigration process.
—Kevin Cohen, New York Daily News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Sam Vecenie, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
The federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which subsidizes utility costs for qualifying households, was allocated $3.7 billion as part of an appropriations bill President Joe Biden signed in September.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
Yet political disagreements have prevented Congress from modernizing the 1965 legislation, allocating appropriate resources, and correcting this disconnect.
—Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The ability to identify potentially dangerous individuals swiftly allows border agencies to allocate resources more effectively, preventing human errors and ensuring the integrity of the immigration process.
—Kevin Cohen, New York Daily News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Many states allot the lottery money to their general revenue funds to be used as discretionary spending.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
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Little Startup Help: The state allotted $100 million for new facilities, but it’s only gone to eight places.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
10 Jan. 2025
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The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
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At the same time, there have been some critics in Congress of how some foreign aid is distributed.—
The Hill,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The village dedicated a new police station as part of the Public Safety Campus in 2018.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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Homeless advocates, in fact, debate whether the organizations that dedicate money, resources and volunteers to bring food and such may be doing more harm than good.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
13 Jan. 2025
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In the aftermath of the crypto ball that was organized by David Sacks, and the label of the first crypto President being assigned to Trump the expectations for proactive and forward looking action are quite high.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden, a former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police homicide investigator assigned to the Wallace case, said race played a role — that in the early 1990s CMPD put less emphasis on solving crimes in African-American neighborhoods.—
Michael Gordon,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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Scanning a new Wikipedia tab can feel like turning on a faucet, using a resource that has seemingly always been there and dispensed evenly, almost magically, from the Internet pipes.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
16 Jan. 2025
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The nation’s three largest PBMs – CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx – inflated the prices of drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by hundreds or even thousands of percent, the agency found.—
Tami Luhby,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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Hoppus has survived a terrifying health ordeal, and is ready to devote himself full-time to music.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
12 Jan. 2025
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Science — to which Mann is supposed to be devoted — inevitably involves disagreement.—
The Editors,
National Review,
10 Jan. 2025
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As a group, HQ Portfolio stocks provided better returns with less risk versus the benchmark index; less of a roller-coaster ride as evident in HQ Portfolio performance metrics.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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The Grammys must be held in a major venue of that size because ticket sales provide an enormous percentage of its annual revenue, along with the network TV broadcast — which will be CBS until 2027, when Disney takes over.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
14 Jan. 2025
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That’s the kind of obscure situation Red Note has saved people out of.—
Yaling Jiang,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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But there’s a catch: Their lending capacity is limited by what members can save.—
Danice Brown Guzmán,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Allocate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allocate. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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