mete
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They are assured they won’t need to remain in a game for as long as past pitchers who had to mete out velocity judiciously so they could finish nine innings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They started to mete out desegregation orders with teeth, requiring busing if necessary.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
And yet Himes is able to garner sympathy and adulation for these two men who, within the world of Himes’s Harlem, try their best to mete out justice equally under an inherently unjust system.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
It would be worth great sacrifice to mete out justice and prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023
During one of my last visits to the reservation, in June 2015, I went to the Osage Nation Court, where, in many criminal cases, the Osage now mete out their own justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
In a brief statement, the department said that it wouldn’t comment on what discipline, if any, had been meted out to the officers involved, citing state privacy law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The team's performance at the Club World Cup in Alonso's first matches showed some early promise, despite the stinging 4-0 defeat meted out by Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
We have already seen justice meted out by British judges in speech cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Unified’s 74th Street Elementary School, said discipline should not be meted out with a “one-size-fits-all” approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
His status netted him a grand total of $200 a month, a stipend meted out by a few admiring patrons.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Shew said he and other election officials will focus on meting out the state’s voting laws fairly and helping make sure the public understands them.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
“Drift” frames the source of Jacqueline’s psychological torment as a mystery, meting out cryptic flashbacks to the character’s back story in Liberia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Over more than 50 years since, the Globetrotters have been ruthless in meting out their revenge.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023
Currently two separate bodies are responsible for monitoring potential money laundering and meting out sanctions, the Central Office for Sanctions Enforcement and the Central Office for Financial Transaction Investigations.
From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2023
"It is my duty to use this power first of all in meting out justice."
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
