DISHES OUT Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

dishes out

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present tense third-person singular of dish out

as in measures (out)

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Make a beeline for the flagship Olive Young store, the country’s biggest cosmetics retailer, where there’s a whole wall devoted to sheet masks, testing stations and a vending machine that doles out free skincare samples.

— Siobhan Grogan, TheWeek, 17 July 2026
The district received a $750,000 grant from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, which doles out money from sports betting tax revenue, said Diana Lane, sustainable food and water program director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, which helped the district land the grant.

— Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 18 June 2026

Definition of doles out

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It’s named after Anders Adolph Retzius (1796-1860), a Swedish professor of anatomy and administrator at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which hands out the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

— Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026
Each year, The Best Pizza Awards hands out accolades to the best of the best pie shops all over the world.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2026

Definition of hands out

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Using that Ducato model as its starting point, Westfalia splits it into three separate levels.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 July 2026
Despite the campaign’s talk of schools and food assistance, fully 90% of the money goes to health care — the education and food assistance account splits the remaining 10%, which also has to cover the cost of administering the tax itself.

— Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 13 July 2026

Definition of splits

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Peck divides proteins into one-pound portions in freezer bags, pressing out excess air before sealing.

— Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 18 July 2026
Nolan divides the sacking of Troy into two lengthy sequences, both shot under cover of darkness but edited (by Jennifer Lame) with a magisterial clarity.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of divides

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Water utilities should also consider a large-user tariff or capacity charge that assigns more of the dedicated infrastructure cost to the customer creating the demand.

— Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
After downloading an app and registering members of your team (which must be an even number of players), the computer randomly assigns your run of games for the evening.

— Ryan P. C. Trimble, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026

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