parcel out

phrasal verb

parceled out or parcelled out; parceling out or parcelling out; parcels out
: to divide or share (something) among different people, groups, etc.
The money was parceled out to local charities.
They plan to parcel the tickets out in a lottery.
We need to stop parceling out the blame for this problem and start working on a solution.

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Over the long term, parceling out programs like Title I and IDEA to other departments — each with their own functions and priorities — could weaken those programs’ ability to serve the high-needs students they were created to support, Wong said. Anna North, Vox, 4 Mar. 2025 Within a few generations—through which passed the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Great Depression—the federal government bought the plantation and parceled out the land to the remaining Black Pettways. Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025 That extra set of cuts has not been parceled out to individual committees. Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 Putin has long prided himself on serving as the system’s arbiter, parceling out morsels to various clans while never elevating one over another. Joshua Yaffa, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015 Some jobs were parceled out to remote workers; other, simpler tasks were automated by Invisible’s engineers. Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025 Biden's cautious strategy to parcel out weapons, and his late surge of policy changes, have drawn criticism in Kyiv and from Ukrainian troops. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024 Before, citizenship had been a privilege parceled out by the empire’s ruling Italian elite for good behavior, army service, and/or monetary contributions to the glory of Rome. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024 So begins Kate MacIntosh’s delightful historical novel that parcels out wit and wisdom from widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot in 1805. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025

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