dispense with
Example Sentences
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Su was able to dispense with Intel as a competitor because Intel had “self-inflicted wounds,” said Daniel Newman, CEO of research and advisory firm Futurum Group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
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
In December 1927, it cautioned young women "to become a good cook before you marry, darling. Then you will be competent to rebuke a staff of domestics or to dispense with one".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
Well beyond their years, the kids expressed a suffering that doesn’t dispense with beauty.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024
In addition, Khoi herders west of the Fish River of South Africa traded with Bantu farmers east of the Fish River, and continued to dispense with farming themselves.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
