dispense
verb (used with object)
to deal out; distribute.
had dispensed
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past perfectof dispense.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Within three months, it had dispensed more than 600 boxes of emergency contraception, according to a student advocate interviewed by Seattle Times reporter Elise Takahama.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
In early August, the paper reported that the $14-million Black creators program had dispensed funds inconsistently and sometimes not at all, according to multiple participants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
The team had dispensed its full allotment of 36,000 tickets to Wednesday’s watch party.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2019
AlphaGo Zero had dispensed with human play, but there was still a lot of Go knowledge handcrafted into the features that the program used to represent the board.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2018
I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of “Frederick Bailey.”
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
