disposes

present tense third-person singular of dispose

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Recent Examples of disposes The president proposes, and Congress disposes The US Congress, however, was not pleased by this. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disposes
Verb
  • DaCosta situates the story in 1954 but infuses it with her modern sensibility, shaping a lush, volatile portrait of womanhood, longing, and consequence.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Saffir‒Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—western hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories, distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.
    Miriam Toews September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Once the invoices arrive in De Agostini’s inbox as attachments, AI classifies the documents before extracting and validating the data.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This spending puts them in the same ballpark as Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City, but is still shy of Chelsea, who have spent more than £2bn in the same period, although their net spend will be much lower than that figure given their success at selling players.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jaime Zehner, founder and principal designer of JZ Interiors, puts a Cali cool twist on traditional style.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Latest section, on the other hand, arranges posts and reels in chronological order, with the most recent ones appearing first.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At Zé Elídio’s compound, Janalice and other girls are assaulted before being handed over to Philippe Soutin, who arranges to auction them during the mayor’s birthday party.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Conrad eventually locates Jeremiah and manages to hand him the letter.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Jarcho locates an undecidability in masochistic desire.
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The win extends a run of Emmy recognition for Obama's post-presidential media projects and places the former president among a small group of political figures who have received high-profile cultural honors.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • How Teach for America grew in New Orleans Many of the new teachers came to New Orleans through Teach For America, or TFA, a national program that places mostly recent college grads in public schools for two years.
    Aubri Juhasz, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Continue reading … ORDER FROM THE COURT – Georgia judge orders Fani Willis to redo search for records in Trump election case.
    , FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As the documentary depicts through footage of the rescue efforts, all of those outside tensions make the two rescue parties reluctant to work together, until the government orders the special forces team to use the indigenous search party’s knowledge of the forest in their favor.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Disposes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disposes. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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