dispense
verb (used with object)
to deal out; distribute.
is dispensing
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present progressiveof dispense (3rd person singular).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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When an AI model is dispensing advice, it doesn’t know the difference between a body builder who wants to lift heavier weights and is consuming enough protein and a malnourished person who isn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The Plymouth Art Vending Machine, operating in the city's Drake Circus mall, is dispensing plays, poems and badges for £1 per item.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2023
The nation is dispensing about 900,000 shots of the vaccine per day, well below the peak of 3.4 million a day in mid-April.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
If the book at times feels as if its primary function is dispensing information rather than storytelling, that’s because informed care for our bodies is the story Miller is telling.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
He is dispensing to them such education as he thinks they ought to have, instead of allowing them to decide for themselves as to the education which may be agreeable or useful for them.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. Boutwell
