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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dispense .
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Examples
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"Like a story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Fountain dispenses with everyday assumptions about time, space and causality and tries to replace the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and visual metaphors," writes AO Scott in the New York Times.
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-- "Finally, the author by this most admirable and much signifying title dispenses with all necessity of preface.
My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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-- "Finally, the author by this most admirable and much signifying title dispenses with all necessity of preface.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Thai chef-owner Phaowana Allen produces seriously good, zingy food, while the bar the Vine is listed in Camra's 2011 Good Beer Guide dispenses real ales across four pumps, with an emphasis on Norfolk brewers such as Winter's and Wolf.
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He demonstrated the shiny automatic soda fountain, which dispenses 130 varieties of Coca-Cola, by mixing his own concoction of orange Diet Coke, Sprite grape and Pibb Xtra.
Yes, It's Still A Drugstore Anne Kadet 2011
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Kody, 42, looks and sounds like a totally "awesome" surfer dude, who uses the word "awesome" a lot, and he dispenses hugs so freely that I would get a hug if I were in his vicinity ... even after writing this.
Bonnie Fuller: Sister Wives Polygamist Husband Kody Brown: Country's Biggest Con Man and Bad Dad! Bonnie Fuller 2010
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Kody, 42, looks and sounds like a totally "awesome" surfer dude, who uses the word "awesome" a lot, and he dispenses hugs so freely that I would get a hug if I were in his vicinity ... even after writing this.
Bonnie Fuller: Sister Wives Polygamist Husband Kody Brown: Country's Biggest Con Man and Bad Dad! Bonnie Fuller 2010
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A very British spy thriller that dispenses with all that hasty pacing and coarse action in favour of well-tailored men talking in rooms.
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JUDITH RICH HARRISIndependent investigator and theoreticianThe internet dispenses information the way a ketchup bottle dispenses ketchup.
John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012
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This is a real punch to the gut, a show that dispenses with any semblance of a veil, straight from the beginning.
Joe Winkler: Pulling -- The Best TV Show We Forgot to Watch Joe Winkler 2012
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