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dispensary

[dih-spen-suh-ree] / dɪˈspɛn sə ri /


NOUN
clinic
Synonyms
NOUN
infirmary
Synonyms




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For dispensary owners, wading through government inefficiency burns precious capital.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

From the outside, it looks like your standard-issue corporate dispensary, largely because of where it is.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2025

She added that her shop was "propping up" the dispensary.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2024

“This project will change the trajectory of their lives forever,” Forrest Parker, general manager for Qualla Enterprises, the tribal company that manages the dispensary, said during the opening ceremony.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2024

Sometimes she would be sent on an errand to the dispensary and would have to wait for the pharmacist to return.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

It had been measuring the required 500-foot distance between schools and dispensaries from door to door, not from property line to property line.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

The agency can only use “back of the envelope” calculations to estimate whether dispensaries are financially above water.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

“I always say dispensaries are the turducken of retail,” she said.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2025

Starting this year, brands doing business in New York will be required to obtain licenses to place their products in legal dispensaries.

From Seattle Times Feb. 25, 2024

But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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