distributing

verb

present participle of distribute
1
as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type distribute the assignments according to seniority

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2
as in allotting
to give as a share or portion committed to distributing the school's limited scholarship money so that it benefits more students

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3
as in dispensing
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals distributed pamphlets on recycling to everyone in the neighborhood

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Recent Examples of distributing Deablo wears the green dot for the Falcons’ defense, giving him the responsibility of distributing play calls to his teammates. — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026 The rollout included distributing the new shoe across 5,000 doors, twice the average for a Nike basketball signature shoe, Hill explained. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026 This approach opens the door for distributing residential batteries to many more households by making inroads into the largest US city with more than 2 million rental homes. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026 Information asymmetry can create a reason for people to collaborate, but distributing information is only the beginning. — Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Police are asking people who might have security video or images of the person or people responsible for distributing the flyers to contact the department and ask to speak to an officer. — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 The legislative branch sets the budget and gives dozens of federal agencies instructions on distributing those funds; the agencies create detailed policies to select grant applicants and get the money out the door. — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2026 The news organizations take turns filming the president's activities -- rotating in alphabetical order by network name -- and distributing that footage to the other members. — Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026 The government once dedicated itself energetically to distributing homesteads or homes. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distributing
  1. classifying
  2. allotting
  3. dispensing
  4. ranking
  5. assigning
  6. providing
  7. distinguishing
  8. allocating
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  • Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.
    — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026
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  • Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.
    — Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Definition of allotting
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  • Yet while one state agency was running out of patience with the home, Miami-Dade mental health treatment centers, dispensing Medicaid and other state dollars, had clients living there, and several other homes like it.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • This spring, a 5th Circuit order briefly reinstated in-person dispensing nationwide, but thankfully the Supreme Court stepped in to pause that order and preserve access while the case continues.
    — Julie F. Kay, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026
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  • Vance stumped in Florida, putting the Republican Party's highest-ranking officials in areas where GOP candidates once expected to have glide paths to victory but are now facing tougher races.
    — MICHELLE L. PRICE, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But in July, Saudi Arabia attacked the airport in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, to prevent the landing of an Iranian plane carrying high-ranking Houthi officials.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of ranking
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  • Think about what the AI will need to disclose before assigning the call.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Matter is never worthless, but assigning it a price does not necessarily make its environmental and social costs disappear.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of assigning
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  • There is also a kids club providing childcare and kid-friendly activities provided by a team with over eight years experience working with children.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • His new project, Flop, aims to create a spot market for computing power, where participants are rewarded with Flop tokens for providing GPUs and performing AI inference.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of providing
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  • Firms that hold durable AI positions build diagnostic systems capable of distinguishing high-weight signals from low-weight noise.
    — Joseph Byrum, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • But human judgment will always matter in distinguishing good from bad writing.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of distinguishing
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  • Most companies already have established processes for deciding where to expand, allocating capital and evaluating new markets, and reworking those processes requires more than adding another tool.
    — Jeremy Barnett, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Higher yields tend to pose competition for stocks has investors may prefer allocating to relatively risk-free and higher yielding bonds rather than risk-on stocks.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
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