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Dispatching them to Ukraine would most likely meet resistance from senior commanders, and it would take extensive time to train the Ukrainian operators.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Dispatching that team opened up room for Dauch to hire his own staff.

From The Verge • Nov. 9, 2021

Dispatching police to keep them home would “exacerbate social unrest, and this unrest could limit our ability to control the epidemic,” said López-Gatell, a Hopkins-trained epidemiologist.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2021

Dispatching a whaling voyage cost between twenty and thirty thousand dollars, a small fortune in the mid-nineteenth century, and an industry emerged to get these expeditions off the dock.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

Dispatching an orderly to the duke, to inform him of the French movement, we rode towards the village.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various