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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Recent Examples of ration
Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Many grocery stores have started rationing eggs, with Trader Joe’s limiting purchases to one dozen per customer; some Kroger and Aldi stores set that cap at two cartons per trip.
—Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2025
Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2025
It’s also easily hunted and once helped sustain enslaved people who were provided meager rations.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Less than three years ago, Germany was capping energy prices and considering rationing fuel as Europe scrambled to replace cheap Russian oil and natural gas.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Many grocery stores have started rationing eggs, with Trader Joe’s limiting purchases to one dozen per customer; some Kroger and Aldi stores set that cap at two cartons per trip.
—Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
Jang says the Storm Corps were provided with slightly larger rations of food and that they are compensated better once they are discharged considering their longer tenure of service and harsh training.
—Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2025
It’s also easily hunted and once helped sustain enslaved people who were provided meager rations.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ration
Verb
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Introduced in the House and Senate, this law would extend the exemption period for pills to match the 13 years allotted for biologics.—
mark gibbons,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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She’s allotted exactly one family member of note, her mother Gail (Sissy Spacek), and the dynamic between them is defined entirely by that one specific incident of abuse.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Members, who receive a living allowance and have basic expenses covered, would be paid through the end of April, according to the memo.—
Hannah Fingerhut,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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The program has different investment thresholds with different allowances.—
Kathleen Peddicord,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The Inflation Reduction Act allocated $15 million for a task force within the IRS to create a report about the costs and opinions of a potential direct e-file program.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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According to Harvard’s annual report, the largest chunks of the endowment are allocated to private equity (39%) and hedge funds (32%).—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Judah discovered his double portion, while his dad had one and mom had none.—
Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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OneNote's clipper can grab an entire website, a portion of a website, or just the content of an article.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Instead, each garment or accessory is assigned one or two points.—
Marilú Almaguer,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Each is assigned to 10 other households in their rural community.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Containment is part of a larger plan for managing a wildfire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Their appeal is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and could be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters That funding was part of some $661 million that USAID distributed in Sudan last year, accounting for nearly half of the global humanitarian response to the crisis.—
Violet Ikong,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2025
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Skyline Media has distributed more than 800 international films and served as sales agent for over 150 Vietnamese and Southeast Asian titles.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In 2023-24, the proportion of first-time undergraduate degree completers who earned a certificate was about 1 in 7 (15.4%), compared to 1 in 9 (11.3%), a decade earlier in 2014-15.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The proportion of female protagonists and co-leads has grown from 32% in 2015 to 54% in 2024.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Ration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ration. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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