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dispense

[dih-spens] / dɪˈspɛns /




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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

And he wouldn't argue with the fact that it is far easier to console and dispense advice to virtual children - and yet he finds some comfort in the trend.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

Because of Chapel Hill High School’s strict Zero Tolerance Policy toward drugs, the school nurse had to dispense all medications for Chapel Hill High School students.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

“Your friend dispenses good advice,” the old beggar chimed in.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

When leading experts tried to offer their own chatbot to help those at risk, it dispensed problematic advice.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 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

Zhao Xuan, 28, who tells the BBC that her parents dispensed so much "gourd soup literature" that she has muted her family group chat.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

His subjects, he tells us, have dispensed with outmoded theology and instead put ritual to its proper use as a useful technological aid to social connection and cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

He wished Tartarus had better beverage options, or maybe a tree that dispensed antacid fruit.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

The disparity was stark for ectopic pregnancy: The data indicate that the inappropriate provision of mifepristone to a woman with an ectopic pregnancy was between three and six times more likely with remote dispensing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

Surely Carl had listened to his radio, the lighthouse radioman dispensing advice, the freighter’s navigator calling in positions, taking readings off Lanheedron Island, then suddenly deciding on a bisecting dogleg right through Ship Channel Bank.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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