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Escrow providers ensure each payment complies with the terms of the contract, disbursing money to IVF clinics, the surrogate, insurance companies and hospitals for nine months or more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

It warns that the process for being on the "registry of charities and fundraisers" has not been completed and as such Archewell cannot carry out charitable activities, such as "soliciting or disbursing charitable funds".

From BBC • May 14, 2024

Lan is accused of disbursing $44 billion in loans to herself and her allies between 2012 to 2022, and the documents related to the case weigh 6 tons, according to VN Express.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024

The U.N.'s Green Climate Fund for disbursing climate finance to developing countries also announced a goal of capitalizing at least $50 billion by 2030.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023

You, and other people, too, have a habit of admiring him, a great creature with eyes of milky blue, who goes about disbursing his small coin like some old Aladdin!

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various