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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

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

Rea said he was on the dole at the time, his manager had just left him and he had been banned from driving.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

How does the league dole out those big national windows.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2025

He might be a dole bludger and a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he’ll agree to almost anything.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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 Knicks postponed a planned presale on Ticketmaster, while the NBA doles out tickets to its own partners.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 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

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

What’s left over will be doled out to individual investors.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

But to determine a mother-worthy performance, one must first understand how the title was originally doled out.

From Salon May 10, 2026

Previously, the consequence was only doled out when people with such debt sought to renew their passports.

From BBC May 7, 2026

Enormous signing bonuses were doled out to secure the services of superstar golfers Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau and Rahm.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It is in charge of doling out city-owned land, tax incentives and financing subsidies for large-scale development projects in the city.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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

The Graybills are among a growing rank of parents who are forgoing inheritances in favor of doling out money to family while they are still alive to see it do some good.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

It urged Congress to block the fund from doling out any payments.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

I would do whatever it took to become Cory Cormier’s right-hand man, doling out fireworks at my whim.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon




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