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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dished out
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First handed out in 1974, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has introduced several new categories this year, including Outstanding Emerging Talent in a Daytime Drama Series, Outstanding Culinary Cultural Series, and Outstanding Regional Content in a Daytime Genre.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025 -
On Tuesday, October 14, members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) handed out flyers at more than a dozen airports across the country, including LaGuardia Airport, Chicago O’Hare International Airport, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
17 Oct. 2025
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Scholars are perpetually divided.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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The situation is a potential turnaround from just six months ago, when Democrats and their allies were divided and despondent.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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In a rare example of agency for a beneficiary community, 21 emerging Indigenous leaders recently crafted selection criteria, evaluated applicants and picked two dozen finalists to split a pool of $720,000.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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The dying relative, Mitch explained, was willing to take the fall for Scott’s killing; then someone else would turn him in, claim the reward money, and split it with them.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Roughly one-third of cities’ revenue comes from federal grants to states that are then doled out to cities.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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The question of who is going to shell out, besides the usual suspects like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which have doled out soft loans in the past, also looms large when the government is still stabilizing its economy amid a challenging global landscape.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Oct. 2025
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Bayern were allotted the hardest draw of the league phase by Opta’s fixture difficulty metric and still have to take on PSG and Arsenal.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The amount varies each day because every country is different, but each team is allotted the same amount.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Former Des Plaines officer Mike Albrecht recalled to NBC Chicago that when police were assigned to surveil Gacy after Piest's disappearance, the part-time clown would try to pal around with officers and invite them into his house.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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The randomized clinical trial enrolled 114 patients with moderate-to-mild knee osteoarthritis who were each assigned a very low dose of radiation, a low dose or a placebo.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Some of today’s most ubiquitous beauty trends were started by Latinas, appropriated by white mainstream audiences, and rebranded into something that only sounds new.—
Sofía Viera,
Allure,
10 Oct. 2025
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In addition, time has expired for spending money previously appropriated by Congress, so for all practical purposes, not only is the money gone, so too are the programs that the money was meant to fund.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Dished out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dished%20out. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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