dispatched

past tense of dispatch
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Recent Examples of dispatched Those managers then determine whether firefighters and other resources need to be dispatched. Brian Maass, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 Inès Konan kept her cool despite a three-minute delay for a VAR check and duly dispatched the penalty to open the scoring for Ivory Coast. ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 And, for audiences who still need a fix of their favorite unscripted talent between seasons of their marquee shows, individual stars are being dispatched to other franchises. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026 A number of these women were still in Russian custody, convicted of would-be crimes and dispatched to faraway prison colonies. Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026 The calls started to pick up last November, with a noise complaint, and officers have been dispatched to the address once or twice a month since then, with the exception of June, law enforcement records show. Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Bogotá dispatched rescue personnel, while Medellín and Barranquilla were among other cities participating in relief efforts. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 The Groton Police Department were dispatched to the scene after several emergency calls came into Groton Emergency Dispatch regarding an evading black SUV striking Tanta-Quidgeon and leaving the scene, according to the Groton Police Department. Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026 Purists will scoff at the way that most of the old-school cast is dispatched en masse instead of by the traditional one-kill-scene-at-a-time method. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispatched
Verb
  • So, Basabe laid out, extended his left arm, made contact with the ball — and sent it straight into right field.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Bird remains recovered from airplane strikes, called snarge, are sent to the Smithsonian Institution’s lab in Washington DC, where they are analyzed to determine the species.
    Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Someone had apparently vandalized Altman's Wikipedia page, claiming he was assassinated in Seattle.
    Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But when The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, the novel was declared by some as blasphemous, and then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie to be assassinated, leading the author to go into hiding until 1998.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Within years, the iconoclastic comic was a weary and defeated man — broke, baggy-eyed, and prematurely old.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Alaves defeated 10-man Getafe 3-0 and Sevilla rallied to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In June, more than 30 people were killed when gunmen attacked the main airport in Niamey.
    CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Two other people were killed in Indiana earlier this week during a powerful derecho.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Itzkowitz is the eldest son of Albert Itzkowitz, who was brutally murdered in broad daylight at Kissena Park in Queens on the afternoon of May 18.
    Simcha Itzkowitz, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Security footage showed the van leaving the Home Depot parking lot shortly before Fandrich was murdered.
    Lauren Clark, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who became chair after his 2004 Presidential campaign, told me that part of the job is learning how to tune out the complaints, something Martin has apparently not yet mastered.
    Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
  • And for me right now, the Weeknd, whatever that is, it’s been mastered.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The 68-year-old was executed by lethal injection July 28 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee while on duty as a cop for the Mascotte Police Department.
    Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Two Elmwood jail inmates were convicted at trial of murdering another inmate in a vicious gang beating that was executed over the course of 11 agonizing minutes, and went undetected even as it was recorded on surveillance cameras.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026

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