dole
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His support didn’t stop once he was in the chamber, as he continued to dole out major donations to a wide range of conservative lawmakers.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
He loved archery, considering it a lost art, and would make his own bows that he would dole out as gifts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
While many hyperscalers are cutting down their stock-buyback activity in the wake of heightened AI spending, Nvidia is on the receiving end of those AI dollars and could dole some more out to shareholders.
From MarketWatch ● May 17, 2026
He can dole out favors, such as access to a vacation beach house or the green light to open a nightclub, relatives said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
A crowd of people were gathered around the scavenge train, all of them waiting for Lucky Strike to dole out supplies.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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My advice, as a marital and family therapist with almost 20 years’ experience, is that if your therapist freely doles out advice: Find a new therapist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
He asserted that the government doles out “hundreds of billions of dollars, under the act. ... They take our money, and they don’t spend it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The agent in turn safeguards the funds and doles it out to pay expenses and compensation as they come up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
I personally believe in the concept called karma, but not in the sense that the universe is a giant calculator that doles out ultimate judgment for good and bad behavior.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
Her slender brown arms wave about like wings as she doles out every command.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Meta previously doled out roughly $94 million through a prior community grant program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Loan pools like the Chinese hui, the Japanese tanomoshi and the Korean kye involve groups of investors who pay into a kitty that is then doled out on a rotating basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
What’s left over will be doled out to individual investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Previously, the consequence was only doled out when people with such debt sought to renew their passports.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Rollins doled out the cash to Brekker, then had him write out a transfer order for his shares in the Crow Club and the gold mine that was Fifth Harbor.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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The fire brigade saved "not just our home but our business premises too", said Manu Goncalves, doling out portions of roast chicken alongside his neighbours' courgettes with his son Theo and niece Manon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
He said markets were responding to the economy rather than to the Fed, which was evidence that his pullback from doling out guidance was working.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Arcuri expects that spending to grow to $10 billion in 2028, which could put the Terafab on the path to doling out more than $50 billion a year for wafer-fab equipment by 2030 or 2031.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
It urged Congress to block the fund from doling out any payments.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
And there were plenty of private videos uploaded to the Thunderhead, showing Goddard and his disciples doling out immunity like bread to the poor.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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