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dispense

[dih-spens] / dɪˈspɛns /




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While two calm days have been most welcome after what we have witnessed in recent months, we do not want England to dispense with everything we saw under Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes' Bazball regime.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The questions: What will it take for AI to dispense reliable medical counsel?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

One of the FDA’s concerns is that the agency doesn’t have any information about the containers that would be used by compounding pharmacies to dispense the medication.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

In February, Monsanto proposed another multi-billion dollar class settlement to dispense with claims that Roundup causes cancer.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

One of Socios en Salud’s first projects was to build a pharmacy next to Father Jack’s church, to dispense free medicine to the most impoverished people in the slum.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

This streamlined version—co-written with Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist and popular-science author—retains explanations of vital topics, such as the curvature of spacetime and Einstein’s theory of relativity, but dispenses with the drier sections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Azerbaijan's singer Jiva is much more ruthless as she dispenses with a lover on the cinematic ballad Just Go.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

The musical, featuring a book by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch and a score by the Rescues that dispenses with the movie’s cover-heavy soundtrack, is undeniably overstuffed.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

She also conducts research for patients—from cancer treatment to skin care—and dispenses advice that other doctors might not; a patient recently texted to ask if the foundation makeup she was considering was “clean beauty.”

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

Neither do the ads for an electronic device that dispenses lindane fumes — we are told that it is safe and odorless.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

People in her village, Bakau Serip, were now depending on tanker trucks that dispensed "dirty, cloudy and smelly" water, she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Prepared food and dispensed beverage same-store sales growth fell to 4.8%, from 5.6% the year before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Saum Poorsaleh, San Diego police public information officer, said his department had issued more than 50 citations at Sunset Cliffs and dispensed about 350 warnings, written and oral, since mid-June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh dispensed with subtlety altogether.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

The very first facts they dispensed, I grasped with awe.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Long before Oz entered politics, for example, he’d been discredited for dispensing a vast array of scientifically unsound medical advice on “The Dr. Oz Show,” which Winfrey’s Harpo Productions co-produced.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

In a five-star review, the Guardian's Lucy Mangan, external said Lawson "moves through Bake Off dispensing words of wisdom, generous praise and gentle criticism".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Warsh, who has proposed fewer annual Fed meetings and dispensing with regular news conferences entirely, flew through the queries lobbed by reporters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It would be one thing if Macklemore’s comments in New Jersey truly resembled the hate speech that Kraft accused him of dispensing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Today, Hasina was dispensing advice on how to fend off unattractive suitors.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini


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