dispense
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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 it doesn’t have any information about the containers that would be used by compounding pharmacies to dispense the medication.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 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
But access to the Net and to other facets of one’s culture ought not be a toy that parents and teachers are willing to dispense to “good” and “normal” boys and girls.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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His title, “Enemy of the People,” dispenses with the indefinite article — a decision he chalked up to “Chekhovian impulses.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
The NHS pays pharmacies a fixed price for each medicine it dispenses.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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
But the machine in the corridor dispenses only coffee, tepid at best, in paper cups.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Outside Estella, where the path passed a fountain that dispensed wine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
As the show’s host, Queen Latifah dispensed uplifting thoughts about American idealism throughout the evening but also got a slot of her own to do her classic “U.N.I.T.Y.” with help from a rambunctious drum line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh dispensed with subtlety altogether.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
The drug could be dispensed only in person by a qualified physician, which protected women with life-threatening ectopic pregnancies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
And he generously dispensed his accumulated wisdom to the very rivals who were competing with him for clients, most notably Scott Fischer.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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In response, local authorities started dispensing fuel straight from road tankers which keep changing their location to minimise the chances of being hit.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Here she remade herself as a low-key singer-songwriter dispensing wise yet unflashy tunes about love, home and family — part of a gentle resetting of pop’s mood after the turmoil of the previous decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
On YouTube, the “ETF-explaining Bro” channel is among an emerging group of “finfluencers” dispensing market advice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Warsh hinted at a blizzard of changes ahead, but the biggest arguably may be dispensing with consideration of the markets’ reaction to the Fed’s words.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
I ask the nurse wrapping up her dispensing duties if I need any meds, and she says I’m not scheduled for any.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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