as in allocates
to give as a share or portion
each speaker was allotted five minutes to present his or her opinion in the debate
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Each team allocates its funds across hardware, subscriptions or specialized tools that best support its work.—
Kathleen Hurley,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025 -
The program allocates tax credits to each state on the basis of their population.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The content team, led by Katie Brown, a former lifestyle television host and home goods expert, gives each podcast a title, creates an outline of the podcast, with the content filled out by AI, and assigns it one of the personalities as a host.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Resistant to seeking full-time employment that would exhaust his writing time, Paul instead signs up to a website that assigns one-off menial jobs — yard work, rubble removal, flatpack furniture assembly — to the freelancer willing to work for the lowest possible rate.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
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A number of rare and valuable Pokémon are unfortunately shiny locked, and typically the only way to obtain shiny versions of these Pokémon is to wait for a future game, or hope that developer Game Freak distributes them as a gift.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Gestational diabetes results from hormonal changes and the way the insulin converts food into energy and distributes that fuel to cells.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Allots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allots. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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