reapportionment

noun

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Recent Examples of reapportionment Last year, the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the state was on track to lose four more congressional districts in reapportionment in 2030, leaving California with just 48 House seats. — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024 Michael Li, senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said Friday the Census Bureau’s new estimates indicated there might be a slightly less dramatic 2030 reapportionment across the nation. — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024 Utah Congressional District 4 Utah’s 4th congressional district first appeared after the 2010 Census reapportionment. — Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 This reapportionment process produced results that slightly favor Trump. — Alauna Safarpour, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for reapportionment
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  1. apportionment
  2. distribution
  3. issuance
Noun
  • The judge also said voters have legal standing to sue to have their votes be counted and given equal weight, like when a voter in a district that has a disproportionately large population has standing to challenge the apportionment.
    — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • To some, the IRS’s willingness to let Coca-Cola compute its U.S. tax liability using a permissive apportionment method like the 10-50-50 formula for two decades might sound like a good thing.
    — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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  • The ongoing instability of the power grid has also led to protests, with many criticizing LUMA, which took over power transmission and distribution in 2021.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Last year, a $2.4 billion distribution from Harvard’s endowment accounted for more than a third of the university’s funding.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
Definition of distribution
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  • In April 2024, long before Trump’s election to a second term, the Harvard Law Review argued for ways to stop judge-shopping as a means to reduce the issuance of nationwide injunctions rather than banning them altogether.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Certificate Authority Authorization Enable CAA that allows domain owners to specify which certificate authorities are permitted to issue SSL/TLS certificates for their domain, thereby preventing unauthorized certificate issuance.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Definition of issuance

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