dishes out

Definition of dishes outnext
present tense third-person singular of dish out
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Verb
  • The property also boasts amenities such as a rooftop pool, an on-site gym, and dining options like Spinning Jenny’s Coffee Bar, which doles out local favorites, including bagels baked by Rover Bagel in the nearby historic Pepperell Mill.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
  • Sometimes, the frame is transfixed by haunting, practically subliminal changes fomenting on a subconscious level, as Dua is shaken from within, and the remarkable Matoshi doles out nuggets of recognizable emotion from beneath her rock-hard exterior.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • Ali Riza Dogan, the owner of Manhattan restaurant Ali Baba Mediterranean Cuisine, hands out free meals weekly and has invited homeless people to sleep in his restaurant's entryway on cold nights.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Roxana Jullapat hands out chocolate muffins to her team.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Trever parts his hair to the right while his brother styles his combover to the left.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Later, Hamilton parts the sea on his kick scooter, speedily escaping from the hectic press area.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • While Jayne works remotely in marketing, Buffington splits his time between private chef work and pool maintenance.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
  • Boone noted that the Yankees are going to face some lefties and reverse splits righties — including Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan and Kansas City’s Michael Wacha and Noah Cameron — over the coming days.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
Verb
  • This metric divides a college’s change in net assets during the year by its assets at the beginning of the year.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The study focused on quantile aggregation, a statistical technique that divides trial data into quantiles, averages the results of each quantile, and looks for patterns across groupings.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 21 May 2026
Verb
  • When a team allots minutes to so many young players simultaneously, lapses in concentration and on-court mistakes are bound to happen.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In cases where players continue to receive paychecks beyond May 1 for a regular season that is concluded by then—as in the NBA—Forbes assigns the full season of salary.
    Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Riverwork, only her second novel after a lifetime of ludic, elliptical poetry, assigns itself an essentially recuperative and archival undertaking.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
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“Dishes out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dishes%20out. Accessed 25 May. 2026.

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