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dispense

[dih-spens] / dɪˈspɛns /




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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 the agency doesn’t have any information about the containers that would be used by compounding pharmacies to dispense the medication.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

In February, Monsanto proposed another multi-billion dollar class settlement to dispense with claims that Roundup causes cancer.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Greenspan used his clout to dispense advice on all manner of domestic policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

I said, “I thought you would be able to help me. I thought you would have some kind of magic. On your door, it says that you dispense healing words.”

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

Days before the official opening, the international jury who dispenses prizes resigned en masse, forcing organizers to reconfigure its Golden Lion prize from one decided by a jury to one decided by the public.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The NHS pays pharmacies a fixed price for each medicine it dispenses.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

In other places, the document dispenses with ambiguity altogether.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2025

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

Like the second theory, this one considers modern Japanese to be slightly modified Koreans but dispenses with the need for large-scale immigration.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

When leading experts tried to offer their own chatbot to help those at risk, it dispensed problematic advice.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

As the show’s host, Queen Latifah dispensed uplifting thoughts about American idealism throughout the evening but also got a slot of her own to do her classic “U.N.I.T.Y.” with help from a rambunctious drum line.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

Around 1485, Leonardo da Vinci had sketched a firing mechanism that dispensed with the need for a burning match.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Zhao Xuan, 28, who tells the BBC that her parents dispensed so much "gourd soup literature" that she has muted her family group chat.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of “Frederick Bailey.”

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass

In response, local authorities started dispensing fuel straight from road tankers which keep changing their location to minimise the chances of being hit.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Some imagine the ICC to be a judicial superhero, dispensing justice to arch villains around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Warsh hinted at a blizzard of changes ahead, but the biggest arguably may be dispensing with consideration of the markets’ reaction to the Fed’s words.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

The Food and Drug Administration is conducting its own review of the abortion pills and its regulations for dispensing medication.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

“It’s about dispensing with punitiveness for its own sake and trying to produce an outcome that will be more healing for everyone involved.”

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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