as in allotted
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 rationed
Internet bandwidth is rationed.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
In at least one case, pharmaceutical stocks aboard the ISS had to be rationed when an astronaut experienced a blood clot in his or her jugular vein.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Despite vast oil and gas reserves, fuel and electricity must be rationed because of underinvestment, outdated infrastructure, subsidies, corruption, and sanctions.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
Bus rides to Canada for cheaper drugs and cases in which people rationed insulin often made headlines but failed to accomplish much.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
Advertisement As a result, parents rationed asthma inhalers.
—Uché Blackstock, Time, 23 Dec. 2025
Early cookie recipes produced dense, heavy doughs—especially during an era when ingredients like butter and sugar were rationed.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
And 15% of adults borrowed money and rationed medicine due to health care affordability struggles.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
The warehouse is almost out of FPVs, so they’re being rationed.
—David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationed
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Chapa said there is only a short time allotted by the state to improve the school’s ratings.—
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The letter proposes that Jackson County withhold all funding allotted toward the Chiefs.—
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Cortez Masto is proposing that $45 billion for ICE detention centers be allocated to Justice Assistant Grant programs and nearly $30 billion in enforcement money to the COPS law enforcement hiring program.—
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For this school year, the state allocated $47 million to the program across both SUNY and CUNY campuses.—
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No legal responsibility was ever assigned to Woroniecki in connection with the Yates children's deaths.—
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Feller staff picked three countries to possibly feature, and they were assigned Mongolia, said Kadie Frey, general manager of Lora Hotel & Event Center.—
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Reza Pahlavi himself has distributed messages calling for defections among the armed forces, and coordinated protests through QR codes.—
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Standing 165 centimeters tall and weighing 71 kilograms, the GR-3 offers 55 degrees of freedom and is equipped with tactile sensors distributed across its body for responsive interaction.—
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“Rationed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationed. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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