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mete out

verb as in administrate

verb as in divvy up

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This handy online timer tool inspired by said technique will automatically mete out your work sprints and build in breaks.

It might not sound like it from the description, but as these three rather stray individuals intersect, the series metes out comedy and dysfunctional romance with a sure hand.

They started to mete out desegregation orders with teeth, requiring busing if necessary.

And yet Himes is able to garner sympathy and adulation for these two men who, within the world of Himes’s Harlem, try their best to mete out justice equally under an inherently unjust system.

But the department didn’t make the footage public or mete out punishment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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