dispense
verb (used with object)
to deal out; distribute.
are dispensing
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present progressiveof dispense.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Companies across the corporate spectrum are dispensing with managers who oversee just a few employees in favor of larger teams with flatter management structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And prescribers will be told to "actively" share with a patient's GP information about what they are dispensing.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
The problem, Sharp said, is that immigration consultants are dispensing legal advice in virtually all cases — sometimes with good intentions, sometimes not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
“You get on Twitter, and then you are dispensing advice about face cream to 500 followers, and the next thing you know you are a lifestyle guru.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2014
I do not love such insects as we are dispensing judgments yet, if the punishment of that just victim might startle such profane criminals, it might be charity to suggest the hint to them.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
