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- verb Present participle of
dole .
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Examples
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But his government's moves to begin doling out cash payments is seen as a sign the subsidy cuts will likely go ahead over the next month.
Iran to Pare Food, Gas Subsidies Jay Solomon 2010
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Critz’s money came as well from top officers of companies that were longtime beneficiaries of Murtha’s largess in doling out military contracts: Argon ST, Progeny Systems, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Advanced Acoustic Concepts and Mountaintop Technologies.
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I’m sure our government would be just as even handed in doling out health care … ….
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I’m sure our government would be just as even handed in doling out health care … ….
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She'd scorn the notion of doling out to me as benevolence what one day would be my own by right.
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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Most physicists agree it would be America's for the asking if Americans wanted it, but the current Congress seems not to, because it would entail doling out half of the $20 billion the ILC is expected to cost.
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And then came Obama, who not only refused to continue politics as usual, but refused to adhere to distasteful political traditions such as doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to urban political party bosses to help turnout the vote, also known as "street money."
Terry McAuliffe, All That Was Wrong With the Democratic Party 2010
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And then came Obama, who not only refused to continue politics as usual, but refused to adhere to distasteful political traditions such as doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to urban political party bosses to help turnout the vote, also known as "street money."
Mark Nickolas: Terry McAuliffe, All That Was Wrong With the Democratic Party 2009
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It is this kind of doling out of future generations 'wealth (via the explosive deficits incurred) under the guise of "stimulus" that has not only proven the failure of big government fixes, but has put the current Administration and its Congressional allies on the chopping block this election season.
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And then came Obama, who not only refused to continue politics as usual, but refused to adhere to distasteful political traditions such as doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to urban political party bosses to help turnout the vote, also known as street money. "
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