as in to allot
to give as a share or portion
the region has had to ration water during times of drought
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Caterina Barbera Kipreos, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Additionally, the government deployed a sweet-tasting carrot, allowing people to automatically get a license plate for an EV in a country where car licenses had long been strictly rationed—particularly in large cities such as Beijing.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
Mick Krever, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
Smoke rises from the cities; the highways are filled with walls of wrecked cars; suicide bombers dive into crowds lined up for water rations; death squads, snipers, and mass graves dot the countryside.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024
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During World War II, a fabric shortage led to rationing.
—Caterina Barbera Kipreos, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Additionally, the government deployed a sweet-tasting carrot, allowing people to automatically get a license plate for an EV in a country where car licenses had long been strictly rationed—particularly in large cities such as Beijing.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
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Tawfiq Qandeel, 85-years-old, from eastern Jenin, had gone several days on meagre rations last week, too frightened to leave his house, his son Arafat told CNN.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
Smoke rises from the cities; the highways are filled with walls of wrecked cars; suicide bombers dive into crowds lined up for water rations; death squads, snipers, and mass graves dot the countryside.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024
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Each individual stake owner would see shares allotted on a one-to-one bases.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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Twenty-one of them provide paid time off and allot, on average, two hours for employees to make it to the polls, vote and return to work.Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Also included were a 15% increase to retirement benefits and a 47% increase to meal allowance.Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Now, the Daily Mail newspaper reports that King Charles has broken his brother’s financial ties, and instructed royal accountants to cease payments of this allowance.Caroline Frost, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
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On top of higher wages, the contract would allow workers to use $5,000 initially allocated for a retirement match to boost their ratification bonus, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.Axios, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Nebraska is just one of two states that uses a piecemeal approach to allocating electoral votes instead of a winner-takes-all approach.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Significant damage was found on at least three beams and a portion of the bridge deck on the southbound side.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2024
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But the portion with date mistakes won’t be known until ballots are processed on Election Day on Tuesday.Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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He was based at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing as a cyber transport systems journeyman.Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The interface for assigning names to faces is clear and simple.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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Was your family still part of the organization when you were cast out?Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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The district covers parts of East Oakland, including the Fruitvale neighborhood.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Their objective is to drive up the costs of extracting, refining, distributing, and using oil, natural gas, and coal to the point that electric bills are unaffordable and the economics of investing in the industry no longer make sense.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Amid the growing casualties, the Kremlin has distributed a manual to soldiers on how to dig and maintain mass graves, filled with diagrams showing mass graves with body bags piled on top of one another, The Daily Telegraph reported.Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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In fact, the house as a whole looks odd: Nothing feels particularly lived in, the proportions are off, the window far too small.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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If the parties get their ways, those proportions could change after Tuesday.Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Ration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ration. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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