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
This handy online timer tool inspired by said technique will automatically mete out your work sprints and build in breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025
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
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
But it feels more egregious than a bad call in the run of play because it’s justice — or injustice — meted out arbitrarily, unevenly and after the fact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Cherifa, who is in her sixties, was one of about 10 Malian refugees who spoke to AFP from neighbouring Mauritania about the brutal violence meted out against civilians.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
The suspended death sentences are the most severe punishment known to be meted out against disgraced generals under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, surpassing the life sentences previously announced for purged military commanders of similar rank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
We have already seen justice meted out by British judges in speech cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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
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
In February, Moscow's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov compared meting her with "a conversation between someone deaf and someone who is mute."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2022
Thus it was that the idea of meting out justice against Madame himself, having once entered his mind, took a firm hold upon him.
From A Modern Wizard by Rodrigues Ottolengui
