as in pharmacy
a place where medicine or minor medical treatment is given
a hospital dispensary
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Recent Examples of dispensary
To her left, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez played a druidic dragon that owned a cannabis dispensary and lit city lights with her lightning breath.
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
Officers arrived at the marijuana dispensary and found a wounded man, later identified as Kato Lamarzae Mills, who was reportedly a suspect in the burglary, police said.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
The act also would have shifted oversight of safety and testing from the Marijuana Enforcement Division to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and funded a program in which regulators would randomly collect marijuana products from dispensaries to test them for contaminants.
—Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
Currently, Wisconsin hemp dispensaries can sell products with up to 0.3% of delta-9 THC by weight, under a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 8 May 2026
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
Officers arrived at the marijuana dispensary and found a wounded man, later identified as Kato Lamarzae Mills, who was reportedly a suspect in the burglary, police said.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
The act also would have shifted oversight of safety and testing from the Marijuana Enforcement Division to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and funded a program in which regulators would randomly collect marijuana products from dispensaries to test them for contaminants.
—Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
Currently, Wisconsin hemp dispensaries can sell products with up to 0.3% of delta-9 THC by weight, under a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispensary
Noun
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The company now operates under the name PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy and acts as a full-service online pharmacy, pre-sorting regular medications into convenient tear-and-go packets and delivering them directly to homes.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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It has not been tested in humans, has not been reviewed by the FDA and is several stages away from any pharmacy shelf.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
Noun
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The drugstore opened in 1933; the soda fountain came in the 1950s.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2026
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For the better part of the 1900s, a regular pastime for kids and their parents was to head to the neighborhood drugstore for an egg cream, phosphate soda, or milkshake.—
Margaret Littman,
Southern Living,
2 June 2026
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“Dispensary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispensary. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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