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dispense

[dih-spens] / dɪˈspɛns /




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Like me, AI can be a bit of a tone-deaf know-it-all, more inclined to dispense advice than to truly listen or empathize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

While two calm days have been most welcome after what we have witnessed in recent months, we do not want England to dispense with everything we saw under Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes' Bazball regime.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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

"If we allow this to happen, no judge will be able to dispense justice," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

His title, “Enemy of the People,” dispenses with the indefinite article — a decision he chalked up to “Chekhovian impulses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

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

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

“Your friend dispenses good advice,” the old beggar chimed in.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Actors’ health insurance plans are typically managed by performing arts unions rather than dispensed by a single corporate employer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Saum Poorsaleh, San Diego police public information officer, said his department had issued more than 50 citations at Sunset Cliffs and dispensed about 350 warnings, written and oral, since mid-June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Its same-store sales growth of prepared food and dispensed beverages has exceeded those of Domino’s U.S. in 18 out of the last 20 quarters, according to data from Wells Fargo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh dispensed with subtlety altogether.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 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

The agreement requires CVS to establish a hotline for employees and the public to report suspected illegal dispensing of controlled substances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Long before Oz entered politics, for example, he’d been discredited for dispensing a vast array of scientifically unsound medical advice on “The Dr. Oz Show,” which Winfrey’s Harpo Productions co-produced.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Matthews said until the Blythe prison site’s infrastructure is separated from neighboring Ironwood State Prison and its bond obligations are resolved, the property can’t move through the state’s process for dispensing with surplus property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

At a centre called "Sniffspace", dogs test human samples on platforms equipped with automatic feeders dispensing dog treats.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

I'd usually begin with the high points and end, a page or two later, by dispensing such sage professional advice as “Punctuation never hurt anyone" or “Think verbs!"

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris


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