dole
noun
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
are doling
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present progressiveof dole.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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States are flush, and rather than holding onto their surpluses for a rainy day, many of them are doling out cash to residents.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
Drugstores are normally busy this time of year with flu shots and other vaccines, but now pharmacists are doling out a growing number of COVID-19 shots and giving coronavirus tests.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
Some are back to pre-COVID-19, one-use-per-patient N95 protocols, but most are doling out one mask a day or fewer to each employee.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
Yet all seem to have gotten through Covid-19, and all have gotten an antibody treatment in such short supply that some hospitals and states are doling it out by lottery.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
And, in areas where banks are finding growth, like credit-card lending, they are doling out fat rewards and cutting interest rates to lure customers from one another.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2017
