dispense with
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“I could dispense with most of them. . . . Perhaps that’s my failing, but I console myself that there are worse failings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
As the United States Supreme Court explained in 1942, the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel implicitly embodies a “correlative right to dispense with a lawyer’s help.”
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
He says it’s time to dispense with cocktail-party niceties about AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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