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dole

[dohl] / doʊl /


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The other Dominican pitchers on the team, Walbert Ureña and José Fermin, speak of Soriano as if he were their older brother, happy to dole out advice on an array of subjects.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

His support didn’t stop once he was in the chamber, as he continued to dole out major donations to a wide range of conservative lawmakers.

From Salon May 23, 2026

Companies with excess cash can do things like hoard it, dole much of it out through shareholder returns, make acquisitions or invest in the business through areas like research and development.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

Those groups then dole out the money to families to cover school costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 2026

Half his dole check would have gone into the contents of that cooler.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Audience members are naturally Bacharach fans, and the show, which runs about two hours with an intermission, doles out the great hits lavishly, beginning with all three singers performing “Always Something There to Remind Me.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

The agent in turn safeguards the funds and doles it out to pay expenses and compensation as they come up.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

Jean-Baptiste plays a woman who doles out misery and also, crucially, internalizes it, giving the character a humanity and sadness that’s absolutely transcendent.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2024

Really, the only questions surrounding the group will be how Servais doles out the playing time to take advantage of the power potential that Canzone has shown and also trying to keep Haniger healthy.

From Seattle Times Feb. 27, 2024

Her duties, as far as I can see, consist of keeping track of orders, handing out assignments to Fanny, who then doles them out to us, and collecting the finished garments.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Meta previously doled out roughly $94 million through a prior community grant program.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The spending plan, set to be doled out during the 2026 fiscal year, is the largest allocation of Measure ULA funds so far — roughly 28% higher than last year’s budget.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

What’s left over will be doled out to individual investors.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Previously, the consequence was only doled out when people with such debt sought to renew their passports.

From BBC May 7, 2026

So thither I journeyed every morning, and when I said how many we were, perhaps half a mud pot would be doled out, sometimes a little more, depending upon who was in charge.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

There are about 276.8 million adults aged 18 and over in the United States in 2026, and doling out $5,000 to each would come to $1.384 trillion.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Only this time, the country that defined Messi’s club career over two decades at FC Barcelona, was the one doling out the punishment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Arcuri expects that spending to grow to $10 billion in 2028, which could put the Terafab on the path to doling out more than $50 billion a year for wafer-fab equipment by 2030 or 2031.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

It urged Congress to block the fund from doling out any payments.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

Matthew and Mark suddenly noticed the bread Mother was doling out.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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