divvied (up)

verb

past tense of divvy (up)
as in shared (out)

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  1. divided
  2. handed out
  3. split
  4. allotted
  5. redistributed
  6. doled out
  7. assigned
  8. distributed
Verb
  • The country is already bitterly divided, with far-left and far-right parties leading opinion polls ahead of presidential elections next year.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Yet Germany’s meager amount of uranium ore had been divided between different piles in the project.
    — Mike McRae October 06, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
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  • The awards were handed out tonight at an imposing ceremony at Rio de Janeiro’s legendary Odeon cinema.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • As the train pulls away from the station, Arabic coffee and chocolates are handed out, later followed by a snack box with two shawarma sandwiches, a cake and a bottle of water, all included in the ticket price.
    — Sophia Dyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of handed out
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  • The airport’s revenue share would drop from 60% to 55%, with the five airlines splitting the remaining 45% of revenue.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Denmark's defense intelligence service specifically warned Russia could use such tactics to split the NATO alliance.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of split
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  • Edmonton has allotted $37 million to its top three players, which ranks second in hockey.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Time is allotted to various family members, but none of them are fleshed out beyond a single character trait.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of allotted
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  • The executive interviews are pushing us toward a broader question that is not just what AI can do, but how the total bundle of management responsibilities should be redistributed and rebuilt.
    — Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • While some of the wealth is being redistributed from the UK to these billionaires’s respective home countries (like Egypt and Denmark), Bloomberg reports that majority of the moneyis heading to the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and Monaco.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of redistributed
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  • Cubanski said the Medicare rebate payments were being doled out when Americans were feeling the bite of higher food, energy and gas prices.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In a country known for its bootstrap individualism, this was a monumental handout; officials ultimately doled out an area the size of Pakistan.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of doled out
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  • Cybersecurity and software Top picks in cybersecurity and software are Palantir Technologies with a $250 price target and implied upside of 30%, and CrowdStrike — which the analyst assigned a $335 price target signaling a gain of 20%.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Discovery and development Clozapine was named in 1959 by researchers at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Wander AG, where it had been initially synthesized the previous year and assigned the identifier HF-1854.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of assigned
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  • Among Parton’s charitable efforts aimed at education was her Imagination Library, which has distributed more than 300 million books to children worldwide over the past 30 years.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In total, 96 groups across the country saw their funding expire at the end of the September, because of a reorganization in the way federal dollars are being distributed.
    — Ciara McCarthy October 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of distributed
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