as in gossiping
to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature
a DJ who dishes the celebrity gossip as part of the morning programming
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Recent Examples of dishing
And that’s mostly paid in cash dividends, with the majority dishing monthly.
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Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Nancy and Minh are there too, but primarily to set up Peggy’s consternation that her neighbors, along with the rest of Rainey Street, have become a bunch of phone addicts hiding behind their Ring cams and gossiping on the Neighbors app instead of interacting face to face.—
Genevieve Koski,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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The next battleground is the execution layer, where the question becomes not just who builds the models, but who profits when AI stops talking and starts acting for users.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Kelly began the livestream upon the news of Kirk's shooting in Utah and learned of his death while talking with Glenn Beck.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Dishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishing. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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