Example Sentences

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“If you had a tax on electricity, you would tax those companies that are distributing electricity, or you could tax the users of electricity,” says Pascual Restrepo, an associate professor of economics at Yale University.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Officials are distributing food on school days and assisting with child care for families.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2023

Groups are distributing bottled water at drive-thru sites, and restaurants are bringing tanks of clean water from suburbs.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Ukrainian officials are distributing iodine pills to protect people living near the Zaporizhzhia facility from radiation-induced thyroid cancer in case of a crisis at the plant.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022

“You are distributing your weight incorrectly,” he told them didactically.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole