as in distributed
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals
a conscientious pharmacist never dispenses pills to people without assurances that they understand the instructions
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Recent Examples of dispensed
Theater owners cut prices and dispensed prizes to ticket buyers as the gangsters effectively cross-pollinated with the studio dance numbers.
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
In Mayorkas' case, the Senate's Democratic majority dispensed with the charges shortly after the trial began.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Ernesto was an activist who dispensed food and medicine in Salvadoran refugee camps.
—Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
The need for the list took on new urgency in 2012, when more than 60 people died from fungal meningitis infections contracted from a drug produced at a compounding facility and dispensed to hundreds of people.
—Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2026
During one recent stop at the ArtPrize event, Zelenak said more than 3,000 acts of kindness were dispensed before the machine ran out.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
Or a slightly shorter series that dispensed with the preamble, but gave the real meat of the story more room to breathe?
—Alison Herman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
The money the production crew dispensed in Archer City helped most people over any hurt feelings.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Cordell Walker, a steely-eyed former Marine who dispensed Lone Star justice with roundhouse kicks and a decidedly old-school moral code.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
In Mayorkas' case, the Senate's Democratic majority dispensed with the charges shortly after the trial began.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Ernesto was an activist who dispensed food and medicine in Salvadoran refugee camps.
—Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
The need for the list took on new urgency in 2012, when more than 60 people died from fungal meningitis infections contracted from a drug produced at a compounding facility and dispensed to hundreds of people.
—Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2026
During one recent stop at the ArtPrize event, Zelenak said more than 3,000 acts of kindness were dispensed before the machine ran out.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
Or a slightly shorter series that dispensed with the preamble, but gave the real meat of the story more room to breathe?
—Alison Herman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
The money the production crew dispensed in Archer City helped most people over any hurt feelings.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Cordell Walker, a steely-eyed former Marine who dispensed Lone Star justice with roundhouse kicks and a decidedly old-school moral code.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispensed
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Opponents have distributed campaign materials citing past statements from Obama and Spanberger criticizing gerrymandering, but those were before Trump pushed Republican states to redraw their congressional maps in advance of this year's midterms.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The rear ramp can handle about 70,500 pounds per load, so payloads must be distributed across multiple pallets.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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On offense, role players such as Gavin Sheets, Luis Campusano and Ty France have provided timely impact; in FanGraphs’ definition of high-leverage situations, the Padres rank first in OPS and wRC+.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Instead, scandals have provided rolling revelations of a general unseriousness.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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The accelerator, funded by the Japan Creator Support Fund under the Agency for Cultural Affairs and administered by Japan Arts Council, ran a lab of 14 fellows with international mentors before selecting five projects for a dedicated industry showcase.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
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In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Mikal Bridges supplied early scoring.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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At least 126 solar projects proposed since the beginning of 2024 are awaiting regulatory approval, according to a Grist and AP analysis of the latest information developers supplied to the Energy Information Administration.—
Ayurella Horn-Muller,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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Tickets to the conference and luncheon, scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, will once again be largely allocated to those with the most $TRUMP coins, but the price to acquire them has become significantly cheaper.—
Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Since 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) has allocated more than $439 million to domestic REE processing and magnet manufacturing projects.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Dispensed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispensed. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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