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dis trib yuh tuhd

  • v  administer or bestow, as in small portions
  • v  distribute or disperse widely
  • v  make available
  • v  give to several people
  • v  cause be distributed
  • v  cause to become widely known
  • v  spread throughout a given area
  • v  be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
  • v  be mathematically distributive
  • v  to arrange in a systematic order
  • a  spread out or scattered about or divided up

  • Film companies owned the companies that distributed their films and the theaters that showed them (until 1948, when the Supreme Court busted the studios vertical monopoly).
  • Fifteen million of these coasters have already been distributed; look for them at 7-Elevens around Christmastime.
  • It is just not uniformly distributed.
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  • Barack Obama in Los Angeles Times
    It now appears that weeks ago, this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed. There appears to other deficiencies as well,Obama said, citing warning signs that should have singled...
  • Joe Barton in The Hill (blog)
    It looks like a ton of LIHEAP money was distributed to con artists who applied under the names of convicts and the dead,said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) in prepared remarks. "Even some people living in million-dollar houses got their utility...
  • Joe Biden in Bloomberg
    We are now only 120 days into the recovery package,Biden said on "This Week," an ABC News program. "No one expected that the recovery package would in fact be in a position at this point of having distributed the bulk of the money."

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