SHARE OUT Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

share (out)

verb

Definition of share (out)

as in to hand out

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Verb

Allegedly, so many cinema-goers vomited and fainted during the initial screenings of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) that theatre staff had to hand out smelling salts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Take a look The White Sox's papal play Pope Leo XIV got a tribute Tuesday night when the White Sox hosted the Cincinnati Reds, as over 40,000 pope hats were handed out to fans and even players.

— Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of hand out

Verb

Hernandez’s comments came hours after the 49-66 Mets dealt numerous players away in return for minor-league prospects.

— Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
The team reportedly were in trade talks with the Connecticut Sun for Annesah Morrow before the forward got dealt to Toronto.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of deal

Verb

Although the film doles out answers, there is some economical hand-waving about why the neighborhood has power and running water for so long.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
Online, influencers in the looksmaxxing space have leveraged other men's insecurities to enormous fame while doling out aesthetic advice with little, if any, credentials.

— Charles Trepany, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of dole out

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While Sebastiaan Bornauw was staying wide on the right of the back three, Trafford came out to split Tarik Muharemovic and Jaka Bijol, offering them a passing option.

— Beren Cross, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
The admission, an aside in a wide-ranging interview, raised eyebrows in the recovery community given the star’s very public embrace of sobriety after joining a 12-step program following his 2016 split from wife Angelina Jolie.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of split

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Instead of making last-minute pet store runs, many owners are choosing subscription meal plans that arrive automatically and are portioned specifically for their dogs.

— Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
The roasted chiles, cleaned or not, can be portioned into zip-top or vacuum seal bags and frozen for up to two years.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of portion

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The team deployed two high-altitude balloons with light sensors and 31 weather balloons to measure temperature, pressure, wind speed and humidity.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Everything the team knows about how fast the plasma is actually moving comes from the simulations rather than from the telescope, and the magnetic field driving the whole thing has never been measured directly at this scale.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of measure

Verb

Instead, the provider manages gas sourcing, compression, transportation, storage, and dispensing through a single service.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
Utilities use them to trip the opening or closing of valves when water levels reach a certain threshold or to dispense precise amounts of chlorine in the treatment process.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of dispense

Verb

Taking a break from slinging hamburgers during the weekend lunch rush, Darlene Dumond acknowledged that Allagash remains divided on Jackson.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
No distributions were ever made by the Children's Trust to any of its beneficiaries, and the beneficial shares of that trust were not divided into separate shares for each of the beneficiaries as was also required by the 2020 amendment.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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