Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dished out
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Barely 24 hours after LaMelo Ball’s play on Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo, the NBA handed out its discipline for the act.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026 -
To that end, Vancouver handed out nearly $200 million in total contractual commitments to veteran players like Brock Boeser, Kevin Lankinen, Thatcher Demko, Marcus Pettersson, Drew O’Connor and Conor Garland between January and July 2025.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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In Budapest ahead of the vote, people were divided on whether Orbán’s long political rule could really come to an end.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
11 Apr. 2026
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Dining on one popular cruise ship is getting a comfort-food shakeup — and passengers are divided over the change.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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In this game, a Proposer is given a sum of money and invited to choose in what proportion to split it with a Receiver.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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What is the fairest way to split the cash?—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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Newsom rolled out the program in 2019 and California has doled out $5 billion through it.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
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In an interview for Page Six published on April 7, the bestselling author, whose new novel American Fantasy is out now, doled out some of her own recommended reading.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
7 Apr. 2026
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Bass allotted roughly $29 million for the department in her budget proposal released Monday.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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The more flights in and out of O'Hare, the more gates an airline is allotted.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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When the Chicago office, which had about fifty lawyers, was closed, all of its cases, totalling in the thousands, were assigned to a single lawyer in Denver.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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In his order, Nunley recounted the attorney’s claim he’d been assigned more than 300 nearly identical cases in the last three months, all of immigrants in detention who argued they were being held without cause.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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The administration has refused to spend money Congress has appropriated, like for foreign aid, and has spent money that Congress has not appropriated, like to pay DHS employees despite a shutdown.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2026
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The symbols were easily appropriated for marketing by roadside vendors but weren’t indicative of the separate and distinct Native American cultures in the area.—
Susan Montoya Bryan,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Dished out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dished%20out. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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