dishes out

present tense third-person singular of dish out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dishes out
Verb
  • Nick Benz-Bushling doles out Johnathan's medications.
    Kate Snow, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Philanthropy is important to the company, which annually doles out millions of dollars in scholarships to its team members, grants via its charities, food donations and more.
    George A. Paul, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tension boiled over when Boston Public Health Commissioner Bisola Ojikutu, a top Wu administration official, said the city hands out more than 80,000 needles per month to drug users.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The state hands out the money based on student attendance.
    Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The tension quickly splits the group.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Hydrogen splits at the anode into protons and electrons.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Analysts say this has pulled the faith’s center of gravity toward the more conservative global south, deepening divides with the West’s more liberal outlook.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Attached to each loop is a polymerase enzyme, which serves a critical function every time a cell divides.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The legislation, as written, assigns one Kansas City voting precinct to two separate congressional districts and two representatives in Congress, according to allegations contained in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Missouri and the Campaign Legal Center.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Better Business Bureau assigns StubHub an F rating with 72 unresolved complaints.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Dishes out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishes%20out. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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