SHARING (OUT) Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

sharing (out)

verb

present participle of share (out)

as in handing out

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Before the cars are back on track, The Athletic’s F1 experts Luke Smith and Madeline Coleman have analyzed each team to date this season, handing out midterm report cards.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Illinois is dropping another $17M this year, handing out grants to 39 organizations participating in the Illinois Works Pre-Apprenticeship Program.

— Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of handing out

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The Dodgers, to their credit, have built a great team—not only by doling out huge salaries but by building an élite development program.

— Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 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

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The site, measuring close to 140,000 square feet, includes some 100 rooms connected by a network of tunnels more than a half-mile long.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Major uncertainties remain in interpreting the results from these experiments, but researchers’ best estimates suggest that each site is measuring a different flux.

— James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

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Had the technical stood, Clark would have been forced to sit out Tuesday’s matchup against the New York Liberty, dealing a significant blow to Indiana as the Fever continue their push through the season.

— Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Irish police said at the time that the ⁠gang had ‌gone from dealing heroin and cocaine in Dublin in the 1990s to operating across Europe.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

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The new order calls for splitting up combination vaccines, like the one that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, which would be given as three shots instead of one, at three separate office visits.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
The order also calls for splitting the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into separate shots, which would require years of investment.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of splitting

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Chin-Hong thinks about risk as a continuum, rather than dividing the world into safe and dangerous.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
Drew Fisher of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, hit the attenuator dividing Interstate 94 from the Lyndale Avenue exit near Olson Memorial Highway, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

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