HANDED OUT Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

handed out

verb

past tense of hand out

as in distributed

to give out (something) to appropriate individuals no system yet in place for handing out room assignments

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Recent Examples of handed out According to The Globe and Mail, free packs of tissues branded with Bareilles’s name were handed out earlier this month at a Toronto show. — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 In the nearly two months of data acquired by the Herald via a public records request, drivers were cited in virtually every corner of the county but there were a handful of hot spots around the county where high numbers of citations were handed out. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026 Mayor Linda Gorton told me the city has handed out free gun locks and offered to buy back guns from residents, among other interventions. — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026 Some T-shirts and hats were handed out, but players only briefly put them on before adding them to the piles some of them have at home. — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 The award was handed out by two Targaryens, Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke and House of the Dragons’ Emma D’Arcy. — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Some of the top contenders are already coming into the ceremony as winners after the first round of awards were handed out earlier this month. — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 And our managing editor handed out car service vouchers like candies. — Sophia Panych, Allure, 10 Sep. 2026 The annual awards, which recognize the most absurd research science can offer, were handed out at a ceremony in Zurich on Thursday. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026

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The funding comes from the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and is distributed to each borough’s arts councils, which act as regrant partners and dole out grants to individual artists annually as part of an open call.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Such direct observations can be detailed, but they are often limited to near-coastal regions and unevenly distributed, while many of the most important stages of hurricane development occur over the open ocean where direct observations are sparse.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of distributed

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The data feed will carry the details of every transaction, including what was dispensed, how much was dispensed, and how it was covered.

— John Mildenberger, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
In a world where kissing up and pissing down was, if not accepted, often tolerated as the price of doing business, Wayne dispensed grace in every direction.

— Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dispensed

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The Navy has provided limited information about the aircraft because its technical and program details remain classified.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Garces-Perez allegedly provided his driver’s license, but ignored agents’ requests to step out of the car.

— Anna Wilder, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of provided

Verb

The first footage shows 30 participants transported to a real prison, where they’re divided into prisoners and guards.

— Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026
His lawyers say the evidence instead showed Rivera, Nuhfer and their associates operating as equal partners, with payments divided equally and participants consulting one another rather than Rivera directing them.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of divided

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Basing the budget purely on what was allocated last year is not a rational approach.

— Erik Clarke, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Interim peace accords in the 1990s recognized their water rights but preserved a system that allocated some 80% of water pumped from the main aquifer for Israeli use.

— Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

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