as in to distribute
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals
no system yet in place for handing out room assignments
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Recent Examples of hand out
Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025
Questions about donations Questions are also being raised about the private donations Hope Florida has collected through its nonprofit arm, which furnishes the money behind the over-sized checks Casey DeSantis has handed out to religious groups that worked with Hope Florida over the last few years.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2025
Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
While full-time workers didn’t stop working when receiving the handout, part-time workers did.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
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The 70th David Di Donatello awards will be handed out at Rome’s historic Cinecittà film studio on May 7.
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This month, those handouts explain how to eat a kumquat: Roll or massage the fruit between your hands, and smell the citrus.
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Skyline Media has distributed more than 800 international films and served as sales agent for over 150 Vietnamese and Southeast Asian titles.—
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El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters That funding was part of some $661 million that USAID distributed in Sudan last year, accounting for nearly half of the global humanitarian response to the crisis.—
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The 40-page booklet contained in the release was designed by Stevens, and includes collages of family photos spanning four generations, artwork, drawings, and landscape photos Stevens took while traveling across the western U.S. over a decade ago.—
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The booklet circulated within community networks and the government printed it in over a dozen languages.—
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On the presentation side, Virtuos has added a much more robust lighting system than before, and the game looks hyper-detailed.—
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An edited version of the presentations and cast materials will then be made available to all Academy members for final voting, which is open to active and life members.—
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Renee sometimes sang with her hand on her hip, dispensing wisdom, and occasionally dancing on stage with her sister.—
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Gaudy costumes and secret identities were dispensed with whilst newsreaders and rock songs from the real world were woven into the plots.—
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The pamphlet was distributed to millions of households in November, after being updated for the first time in six years due to increasing military threat levels.—
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The pamphlet outlines what a heightened state of alert would mean, how each inhabitant would pitch in to a war-time effort, and what different sirens sound like.—
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Dwight, a former U.S. Air Force captain, subsequently became a sculptor well known for his contributions to art and history.—
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If the money did go to political causes, the contributions could jeopardize the Hope Florida Foundation’s nonprofit status.—
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Dutch florists provided tens of thousands of flowers in an intricate, colorful layout − a tradition in its 39th year.—
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While the amount of unused leave becomes public when an employee is paid out after leaving state service, the controller’s office would not provide the number of vacation days on the books for current employees, saying the information was confidential.—
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Key Elements Of A Robust Collateral Suite An on-brand collateral suite is much more than simply your website or brochures.—
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Part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, InDesign is an industry-standard page layout and print design application for creating everything from brochures and posters to magazines and newspapers to interactive ebooks.—
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“Hand out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand%20out. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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