dishes out

Definition of dishes outnext
present tense third-person singular of dish out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dishes out
Verb
  • Rob Hale, founder and CEO of telecommunications company Granite Communications, annually doles out $1,000 checks to local recent college graduates in Massachusetts.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In total, the New York City Marathon doles out $969,000 in prize money, including $534,000 total to the men’s and women’s top-10 finishers, and $118,000 total to the top-five American finishers.
    Bette Canter, Sportico.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • This single fine is close to the normal total of $8 million to $10 million in all fines that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration hands out each year.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Boston Public Health Commissioner Bisola Ojikutu revealed in September that the city hands out more than 80,000 needles per month to drug users.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • According to Harper's Bazaar, the royal family splits their time between the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen and the Chancellery House at Fredensborg Palace, located on the island of Zealand in Denmark.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Clarke, whose splits and underlying numbers were dominant again, set up Fiala for two shot attempts, the second of which generated a rebound and created a scramble.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Food apartheid in Metcalfe Park Census data show how sharply the food access crisis divides Milwaukee.
    April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • What divides him from Burton is that Hopkins, by a miracle, summoned the clarity to renounce his own destruction.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Ratings Board watches every movie in its entirety and assigns it a rating and descriptor that aligns with the views of the majority of American parents.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For a simulation game, their teacher assigns Annabelle and Morgan to lead two different groups.
    Kaleb Demerew, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Dishes out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishes%20out. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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