dished out

past tense of dish out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dished out
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Scholars are perpetually divided.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Atlanta scored first on a 38-yard field goal from Parker Romo, but that came after Huff and Sam Okuayinonu split a third-down sack to minimize a 19-play, 10 ½-minute drive.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bigger than Alaska and Texas combined, West Antarctica is split from the eastern half of the continent by the Transantarctic Mountains, whose peaks are buried to their chins in ice.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • The upper basin states use less water than what is allotted to them in the compact, while the lower basin states use more.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Most notably, every penny appropriated by Congress is dispensed by the OMB, making the agency a potential choke point in a federal bureaucracy that currently spends about $7 trillion a year.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In late July, a longer list of Republican and Democratic senators urged White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to swiftly give CDFI the funding that Congress appropriated for it.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Dished out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dished%20out. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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