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dispatch

[dih-spach] / dɪˈspætʃ /






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No, that’s not a dispatch from topsy-turvy land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The quicksilver changes of scene in this urban hellscape are handled with crisp dispatch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The company led by Alejandro Betancourt plans to dispatch more than 50 drilling rigs to turbocharge the country’s anemic crude production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

A dispatch from the Survivor cruise: Why are people still so obsessed with America’s most successful reality show 50 seasons in?

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then to the sullen and despairing North there came heartening news, the first of which was in a dispatch from Mobile, Alabama.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

There Steinem wrote one of the first mainstream media dispatches from the women’s movement, covering a 1969 abortion speak-out in Greenwich Village, where woman after woman shared stories of terminating pregnancies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The clips were among thousands of reels, memes and first-person dispatches that flooded Instagram once protesters regained internet access.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

“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

What more could possibly exist beyond the dispatches, beyond the suburbs?

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

This observation was made by Goldman Sachs trader Matthew Kaplan in a daily email dispatched to clients on Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The federal government, which has dispatched 11 aircraft and around 300 firefighters to the zone, expects to reverse the situation "in the coming days," Capobianco said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Israeli air force dispatched fighter jets in response to the incident and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held urgent consultations on the incident.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The two explosions occurred when troops had been dispatched to clear a path for a coming U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Someone said they’d seen Dylan by the harbor, and a posse was dispatched to collect him.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Seventh a lap later, after dispatching Lando Norris' McLaren.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Nepal has sought technical assistance and equipment in its rescue efforts, with both its giant neighbors dispatching teams to assess damaged hydropower project tunnels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Navy is reportedly dispatching another carrier, the USS George Washington, to replace the Lincoln.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Saudi Arabia had diverted its oil exports to its Red Sea ports and out the Bab al Mandeb, dispatching some 4.5 million barrels via that route per day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Finally, Secretary Stinson was contacted and made good on his word by quickly dispatching troops to clear the parade route.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler


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