redistributions
- plural of redistribution.
Example Sentences
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Such major redistributions of mass can alter planetary orbits while also profoundly influencing how a star shines, adding or siphoning away gas to change the nature and timing of its subsequent stellar evolution.
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023
The idea of inflation, he continued, evokes “arbitrary injustice, arbitrary redistributions and social bitterness,” and “memories of social situations in which morale and a sense of cooperation were lost.”
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2021
Representation is a layered, multifaceted issue — one that involves fundamental shifts and redistributions in power onscreen, behind the scenes, and perhaps even in who is centered as an audience.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2021
Most states also exempt gasoline from sales tax, meaning that even state gas-tax revenues are effectively redistributions from sales tax collections.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2021
If this class, like its predecessors, has in its turn mistaken its environment, a redistribution of property must occur, distressing, as previous redistributions have been, in proportion to the inflexibility of the sufferers.
From The Theory of Social Revolutions by Adams, Brooks