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
His most significant departure from convention is dispensing with the audience.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
For I must tell you that this nephew of the Pope's, a proud, coarse, boorish clown, was amongst the animals in my picture to whom the Goddess of Fortune is dispensing her gifts.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
