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Studies show that chatbots still dish out faulty medical advice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

History has also taught us that the gods like to dish out nasty surprises every few years: dot-com bubbles, subprime mortgage crises, pandemics, etc.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

But they have now added strong away performances to their armoury, with a solid defensive display on Tuesday allowing Jens Petter Hauge and Hakon Evjen to dish out two sucker punches.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

The Prince of Wales, who is the regiment's colonel, was also on hand to dish out dessert to the junior ranks at Combermere Barracks in Windsor on Thursday.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

But they did believe that what they’d learned from the other island invasions had prepared them for anything our enemies could dish out.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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