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dispatch

[dih-spach] / dɪˈspætʃ /






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But state and county tax revenue would plummet further should Paramount dispatch hundreds of its workers to Tennessee or some other state, Klowden said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

North American Blue Energy Partners, led by Alejandro Betancourt, plans to dispatch more than 50 drilling rigs to the country over the next few years in an effort to turbocharge Venezuela’s crude production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

A dispatch from the Survivor cruise: Why are people still so obsessed with America’s most successful reality show 50 seasons in?

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Inspectors will assess the end-to-end process of a police response through the control room, including call handling, dispatch and initial attendance at incidents of serious violence.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“What happened to me in the dispatch office wasn’t war,” I told her.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

There Steinem wrote one of the first mainstream media dispatches from the women’s movement, covering a 1969 abortion speak-out in Greenwich Village, where woman after woman shared stories of terminating pregnancies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The clips were among thousands of reels, memes and first-person dispatches that flooded Instagram once protesters regained internet access.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

“Time and Water” touches on the epic verse called rimurs, passed down via chanted song by Icelandic women, their descriptive, sorrowful tales like dispatches from previous ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Harry’s aunt and uncle have been preventing such dispatches from reaching the young wizard-to-be, but the boarding school’s messenger owls are having none of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

I’ve positively glowed about you in dispatches to the Augurey.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

After Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier, he dispatched Robinson to the Dodgers’ triple-A team in Montreal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Dirk van Duijvenbode fought back from 4-1 down to defeat Sweden's Viktor Tingstrom 6-4, while Ryan Searle threw four 180s as he dispatched former world champion Rob Cross 6-2.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sinner hadn’t traveled to the tournament due to a knee injury and Shelton had personally dispatched Alcaraz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

In the write-up of the survey dispatched to clients Tuesday, Deutsche Bank’s clients are also a little bit less hawkish than the consensus.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Some of the energy of ATP is used in the mitochondrion but most of it is immediately dispatched into the cell to provide power for other activities.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Seventh a lap later, after dispatching Lando Norris' McLaren.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The Navy is reportedly dispatching another carrier, the USS George Washington, to replace the Lincoln.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was dispatching a team to inspect the damage, calling the incident "deeply concerning".

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

He added: “In the future you could be dispatching robots to go make intercepts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Four hundred watts of white light blasted through the troll’s crimson eyes, dispatching lightning rods of agony to the brain.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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