giving out
Example Sentences
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The ever-rising salary cap means that NFL teams can more easily afford to make costly mistakes, like giving out huge contracts to players they eventually cut.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
The money lines: “Whoever is giving out those permits is a VIP…Unless they’re dead.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Then he resumed pointing at members of the crowd, yelling, “You got an iPad,” referring to the forever viral clip of Oprah Winfrey giving out free cars.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025
He also claimed that Ms Tsurkov had been released after "giving out all the information she had" under interrogation by the "entity" holding her.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
“But Shay, you said it yourself: I wasn’t supposed to be giving out directions to the Smoke. I feel really bad about the whole thing. I’m not going to go advertising it.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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