dole
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The other Dominican pitchers on the team, Walbert Ureña and José Fermin, speak of Soriano as if he were their older brother, happy to dole out advice on an array of subjects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
How many shares they get to dole out will depend on how much is snapped up first by institutional investors and the ultrarich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
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
Och, I could go on the dole, I suppose.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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Business leaders are nervous about the vacancy, as the EDC historically doles out land, tax breaks, and financing for developments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
“Jean-Baptiste plays a woman who doles out misery and also, crucially, internalizes it, giving the character a humanity and sadness that’s absolutely transcendent,” says Glenn Whipp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
Injuries are often taken into consideration when the NHL’s Department of Player Safety doles out punishments.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 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
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For SpaceX, the fee was 0.7%; that number is small but it still came to about $500 million, to be doled out by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the lead banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
Those growers are still waiting to receive their payments, with the final filing day pushed back to April 24, and no clear framework in place for how the payments will be doled out.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
‘No! I have provided it: all that you will get till noon. Food is now doled out by order.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
But Ms. Dimmock, by doling out Parker’s pathological lies and absurd deceptions in modest doses, accomplishes two strategic things—momentum and controlled toxicity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It urged Congress to block the fund from doling out any payments.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
OpenAI offers yearly salaries that top $500,000 for some technical roles, according to its website, and is doling out far more stock-based compensation than other tech companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
She tightens her lips while doling out my drink: she doesn’t approve of me.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 8
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