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dispenser

[dih-spen-ser] / dɪˈspɛn sər /
NOUN
apothecary
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The company that owns the vending machine, iJooz, says it replaced all 500 straws in the machine's dispenser after the alleged incident.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

I yanked the top off the body-wash dispenser at one hotel and left it off until I checked out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

It felt like a piece of my childhood died along with the actor who played Dawson Leery, but it wasn’t just a parasocial relationship that had me weeping next to the soap dispenser.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2026

In addition, customers who have a water dispenser on their refrigerator should flush the device or five minutes; make and discard three batches of ice cubes and clean the ice bin with a disinfectant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

They had a black Santa Pez dispenser purchased from Namibia.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

“We joked about getting him one of those water dispensers that gerbils use,” says Crawford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

They also reportedly have dispensers for chaff -- metal shavings that distract radar-guided missiles -- and flares that blind heat-seeking missiles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

He said he stayed up until 2 a.m. some nights designing paper-towel dispensers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Children use toy pistols and dispensers to squirt coloured water at their friends.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

An elderly white couple sat inside, surrounded by shelves of groceries and auto supplies, by soft drink machines and cigarette dispensers.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin


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