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as in destiny
a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand
he had always just assumed that lifelong bachelorhood would be his portion
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as in part
one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled
equal portions of the students' day are devoted to study, recreation, and sleep
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as in share
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
each camper gets an equal portion of the food
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as in to distribute
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals
portioned out the medical supplies equally
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Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
The combined total, with the state and Contra Costa portions, would be 10.25%.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Not too salty, not too sweet, each bento box is carefully portioned by food group to meet federal nutrition standards.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Starting today, portions of Second Street and A Street NE near the Supreme Court will be closed to cars between 9am and 3pm on days the court is in session through June.
—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
The combined total, with the state and Contra Costa portions, would be 10.25%.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
Scoop cookie dough: Using a 1/4-cup scoop, portion the dough into 16 cookies.
—Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Not too salty, not too sweet, each bento box is carefully portioned by food group to meet federal nutrition standards.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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But now the question becomes: Is that still Catherine’s destiny?Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
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Yet Lamborghini’s real destiny remains the province of the extrovert, for whom too much will never be enough.Brett Berk, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2024
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Milo is the other major part of Reinhart's self-care.Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 28 Oct. 2024
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Moving a single body part in synchrony with the whole is a skill that takes years of training; Kiritake Monyoshi, one of the lead puppeteers, has been practicing his art for more than thirty years.Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Mario saves his brother, and the two share a warm embrace.Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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So few, in fact, that in the last year, first-time purchasers shrank to just 24% of all homebuyers — the lowest share since NAR began collecting data in 1981.Samantha Delouya, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Their objective is to drive up the costs of extracting, refining, distributing, and using oil, natural gas, and coal to the point that electric bills are unaffordable and the economics of investing in the industry no longer make sense.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The campus distributed voter registration cards to students, who will cast their ballots the same day as the nation's presidential election.Axios, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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Entire sectors, such as tech and the European auto market, could suffer the same fate, per the bank’s forecast.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
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Scorpio leads the procession for this weekly horoscope, then each sign takes its turn until the wheel of fate has fully rotated.Jennifer Culp, Them, 25 Oct. 2024
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Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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Roughly a decade later, he has been reduced to eating solitary microwaveable poultry-tagine dinners from the gourmet section of the supermarket chain Monoprix.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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The 1,200 dead on Oct. 7 is [as a proportion of the population] like 48,000 Americans.Karl Vick, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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Polls suggest the majority, around 80%, of Georgia’s population support membership of the EU, with around 67% supporting membership of NATO, putting a significant proportion of Georgia’s 3.8 million people at odds with a government that has appeared to turn its back on those aspirations.Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
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For companies and consumers, dispensing with all that fakery ushers in a new era of trust, Blair maintains.Nick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
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These robots can't transport more than three types of drugs, selectively dispense their drugs, maintain their mobility, or release their drugs at multiple sites.New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Portion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portion. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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