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She is discharging Ash from her care, but offering four last sessions so that “Ash can learn to say goodbye.”

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2023

Prof Hammond looked at data from "event duration monitors", which check every 15 minutes on whether a treatment works is discharging untreated sewage into a river.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2022

The band is called upon when the president is discharging his duties as head of state.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2020

The water China is discharging from its existing dams upstream has had little discernible impact as it dissipates into the expansive delta region where Thach and nearly 20 million other people live.

From Reuters • Apr. 17, 2016

And it is partly because the Empress Eugénie is discharging this high missionary duty, that she is an object of particular admiration just at this moment.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert