dispatch

The buzz: France, bidding to make its third consecutive World Cup final, needed a penalty kick from Kylian Mbappé to dispatch stubborn Paraguay, a third-place team, in the round of 16.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

But emergency dispatch audio reported by US media has deepened concern in Washington, indicating that responders were sent that morning to McConnell's address for an unconscious person and that CPR was in progress.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

According to the EMS dispatch audio from June 14, emergency responders were called to McConnell’s Washington, D.C., residence for an “unconscious” person, with one dispatcher stating there was “CPR in progress” for a “cardiac arrest.”

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

In a separate resignation, hours later, Carns said he could not "in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task".

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

I whirl around, at first convinced that the clerk somehow knows my name, and then wondering whether it’s Helen herself, or one of the other girls from dispatch.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Back on the road, Charlotte and Connor barely have time to make themselves available to the dispatches team before another job comes in.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Wolfe had made a name with his full-throated New Journalism dispatches of the 1960s and ’70s, which adopted the techniques of fiction to describe a postwar world that seemed increasingly outlandish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Time and Water” touches on the epic verse called rimurs, passed down via chanted song by Icelandic women, their descriptive, sorrowful tales like dispatches from previous ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Harry’s aunt and uncle have been preventing such dispatches from reaching the young wizard-to-be, but the boarding school’s messenger owls are having none of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

I’ve positively glowed about you in dispatches to the Augurey.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

Canberra summoned the Laos ambassador and dispatched an envoy to Laos to convey the government's objections and urge justice for the two Australian women who died, the government said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

First came the phone calls: the kayaker alerted activists, who informed the state, which dispatched a team of investigators to inspect the stone structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-serving Senate party leader in American history, has not been seen in public since he was hospitalized on June 14 after emergency responders were dispatched to his Washington residence.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Hundreds of agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York field office had been dispatched to assist the local police.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Uncle Antonio, who had arrived earlier, stayed to speak to Mamá, and in a few minutes the young priest to whom Salvador had been dispatched came in.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

After dispatching Djokovic, he will have every confidence that he possesses the weaponry and experience to overcome Zverev, who he has not lost to since 2023.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was dispatching a team to inspect the damage, calling the incident "deeply concerning".

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

It’s also true that thousands of homes might still be standing if the state and city of L.A. had done a better job of managing woodlands and rapidly dispatching firefighters and equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

“Ulysses can fight, but it’s not about him becoming this kind of revengeful wraith moving through the movie dispatching people. It’s action, but with empathy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

He fought them off with grace and precision, dispatching monstruo after monstruo.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega