dispense
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The questions: What will it take for AI to dispense reliable medical counsel?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
One of the FDA’s concerns is that it doesn’t have any information about the containers that would be used by compounding pharmacies to dispense the medication.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
In February, Monsanto proposed another multi-billion dollar class settlement to dispense with claims that Roundup causes cancer.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
And he wouldn't argue with the fact that it is far easier to console and dispense advice to virtual children - and yet he finds some comfort in the trend.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grown-ups remains a mystery to me to this day.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Let’s hope Judge Chuang dispenses with the Justice Department’s unjust prison demand and issues a suspended sentence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The NHS pays pharmacies a fixed price for each medicine it dispenses.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Impersonating St. Nick, Taylor dispenses amusingly practical advice to children telling her what they want for Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
She also conducts research for patients—from cancer treatment to skin care—and dispenses advice that other doctors might not; a patient recently texted to ask if the foundation makeup she was considering was “clean beauty.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
But the machine in the corridor dispenses only coffee, tepid at best, in paper cups.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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As the show’s host, Queen Latifah dispensed uplifting thoughts about American idealism throughout the evening but also got a slot of her own to do her classic “U.N.I.T.Y.” with help from a rambunctious drum line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
His subjects, he tells us, have dispensed with outmoded theology and instead put ritual to its proper use as a useful technological aid to social connection and cohesion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The investigation also found that the Ayrshire pharmacy which dispensed the drops did not pick up the manufacturer's recall email until nearly three months after it was issued.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Check your ego: Falardeau recalls the sage advice dispensed, politely, by one of his predecessors at Scioto, the late Walker Inman, who was a former pro-tour player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
He strained the pulp from the orange juice by hand when they used to do that sort of thing and then dispensed pre-fab OJ from a machine when the management switched to that.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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It is all part of Wertheim’s goal of dispensing his vast fortune, which he puts at an estimated $5 billion to $7 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This will be more than a typical evening at the Bowl, with dedicated Anderson-branded merchandise and uniformed bicycle riders dispensing candy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Warsh hinted at a blizzard of changes ahead, but the biggest arguably may be dispensing with consideration of the markets’ reaction to the Fed’s words.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
In 2021 the FDA eliminated the requirement for in-person dispensing entirely, a temporary Covid move that was made permanent in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Tata Bidibidi, with his kind, pretty wife and their precarious boat dispensing milk powder and quinine and love to children along the river.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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