dishes out

Definition of dishes outnext
present tense third-person singular of dish out
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Verb
  • Kirby Smart hasn’t hidden from how Georgia doles out dollars to its roster.
    Connor Riley, AJC.com, 11 May 2026
  • Just like a bartender doles out advice to patrons along with their tipple of choice, the Story Tender gives book recommendations to attendees at the bar.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Ali Riza Dogan, the owner of Manhattan restaurant Ali Baba Mediterranean Cuisine, hands out free meals weekly and has invited homeless people to sleep in his restaurant's entryway on cold nights.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Roxana Jullapat hands out chocolate muffins to her team.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Trever parts his hair to the right while his brother styles his combover to the left.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Later, Hamilton parts the sea on his kick scooter, speedily escaping from the hectic press area.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Critics have argued the skyway makes the challenge of filling empty storefronts doubly difficult, as second-floor retail effectively splits a dwindling customer and retail base between two levels.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 May 2026
  • The new map splits 19 counties, instead of the 17 that were split in the 2022-2024 map, Long said, and splits 30 cities, instead of 16 in the previous map.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • Tennessee's General Assembly approved a new congressional map on May 7 that splits Memphis and divides the city's majority Black voters into neighboring districts, intended to eliminate that state’s last Democratic congressional seat.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • The guidance divides defensible space into zones, with vegetation management increasing closer to structures.
    City News Service, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • When a team allots minutes to so many young players simultaneously, lapses in concentration and on-court mistakes are bound to happen.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Kang assigns it in Light and Thread.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • But Manus actually incorporates multiple AI agents to perform and verify tasks, including a planner agent that assigns tasks and an executor agent that can browse and interact with websites, create spreadsheets, use various software tools, and even code new applications.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Dishes out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishes%20out. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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