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dole

[dohl] / doʊl /


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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

Companies with excess cash can do things like hoard it, dole much of it out through shareholder returns, make acquisitions or invest in the business through areas like research and development.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

Those groups then dole out the money to families to cover school costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 2026

And then, with everything well on its way to Safety, the Spoil-Funs, the people with Mercurochrome for blood and iodine-colored eyes, came now to set up their Moral Climates and dole out goodness to everyone.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

Audience members are naturally Bacharach fans, and the show, which runs about two hours with an intermission, doles out the great hits lavishly, beginning with all three singers performing “Always Something There to Remind Me.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 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 duties, as far as I can see, consist of keeping track of orders, handing out assignments to Fanny, who then doles them out to us, and collecting the finished garments.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Two years later, Time Warner doled out an even richer $8.3-billion deal to the Dodgers, which at the time were under new ownership — Walter and his partners with Guggenheim Baseball Management.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Meta previously doled out roughly $94 million through a prior community grant program.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

It seems the fats and oils aren’t being doled out fairly, and Mother’s going to have to put a stop to it.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

To that end, Meta is doling out more money to local communities near its data centers, though Zuckerberg’s essay didn’t specify what that would entail.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

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

Finn watched Darla dance from one customer to the next, doling out food and drinks and extra ketchup.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby




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