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dispense

[dih-spens] / dɪˈspɛns /




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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

Hospitals are also contracting with more pharmacies, which are paid a kickback to dispense medicines.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

Other pieces may even dispense with the idea that music has to consist of notes; compositions may be collections of sounds and silences.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Unfazed, the pickle serenely dispenses its koan-like musings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Azerbaijan's singer Jiva is much more ruthless as she dispenses with a lover on the cinematic ballad Just Go.

From BBC May 8, 2026

The musical, featuring a book by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch and a score by the Rescues that dispenses with the movie’s cover-heavy soundtrack, is undeniably overstuffed.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

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

Like the second theory, this one considers modern Japanese to be slightly modified Koreans but dispenses with the need for large-scale immigration.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Authorities said Mareik and her co-conspirators billed California’s Medi-Cal program tens of millions of dollars a month for medically unnecessary, high-reimbursement generic drugs that were dispensed outside the program’s contracted pharmacy network.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Around 1485, Leonardo da Vinci had sketched a firing mechanism that dispensed with the need for a burning match.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Last year, Patel's pharmacy lost £140,000 on the NHS medicines it dispensed.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

The disparity was stark for ectopic pregnancy: The data indicate that the inappropriate provision of mifepristone to a woman with an ectopic pregnancy was between three and six times more likely with remote dispensing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 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

In the law courts the judges were dispensing the King’s new law, instead of file fierce law of Fort Mayne.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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