DISHED OUT Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

dished out

verb

past tense of dish out

as in measured (out)

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Volunteers handed out 550 backpacks filled with school supplies, while barbers and stylists provided about 100 free haircuts.

— Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Other suspensions Pearce was one of four suspensions the NFL handed out Friday.

— Maura Carey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of handed out

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Men’s domestic cricket in Pakistan, aside from a brief spell from 2019 to 2023 while former Test captain Imran Khan was the country’s prime minister and instigated change, is divided between teams from regions and departments.

— Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Customer data, inventory visibility, budgets, and decision rights should not remain divided by channel.

— Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026

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Chinese funds are also doled out on an ad hoc basis with little transparency.

— Eghosa E. Osaghae, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026
The billionaire philanthropist, novelist, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has doled out more than $26 billion to charity during the past few years, but has done so without much fanfare.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of doled out

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For a long time, the prime real estate for podcast discovery was Apple’s iTunes, where new podcasts were allotted their own row for a week.

— Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Experts say the vast majority of nonprofits cap the amount of vacation time an employee can accrue, most often to one-and-a-half times the vacation hours allotted to them for a single year.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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Judge Michael Chitty was then assigned to consider the motion from Anthony's attorneys asking for a retrial in killing of Austin Metcalf.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
The league has had players who were assigned female at birth and later came out as transgender or nonbinary.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of assigned

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In a world saturated with information, where every image is already endlessly recycled and re-appropriated, attention itself becomes a political act.

— Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Congress appropriated $257 million in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Kennedy Center repairs and renovations.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of appropriated

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