dolloped (out)

verb

past tense of dollop (out)
as in shared (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dolloped (out)
  1. handed out
  2. divided
  3. split
  4. allotted
  5. doled out
Verb
  • The first booking was handed out in the 41st minute and — set your faces to stunned – it was shown to an Argentina player.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Buses transported families, including children and teenagers, from Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, while young activists from Ben Gvir’s and Smotrich’s parties handed out campaign materials and pamphlets.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Definition of handed out
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  • Overall, the picture by market remained sharply divided in June.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • Committee term limits have divided congressional Democrats, and attempts to impose them have come up short in previous years.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of divided
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  • Price discovery for a single company would end up quietly split across several incompatible venues.
    — Mike Cahill, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • However, People reported the former couple will split their assets, including homes, cars, an aircraft and any intellectual property.
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of split
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  • Instead, an equipment staffer lugged a bag of balls into a side training room and was allotted an hour to massage the footballs to the preferred specifications.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • The press corps aren’t allotted much space in the White House.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Definition of allotted
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  • The proposal asks for the money to be doled out over a five-year period, which includes $250 million payments in 2029 and 2030 and smaller increments in the other three years.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
  • In dozens of declarations collected as part of the court record, detainees recounted broccoli full of worms, diapers doled out one at a time, and staff tearing up children’s drawings.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of doled out
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