dispatches 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of dispatch
1
as in sends
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another dispatched a messenger with urgent news

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2
as in kills
to deprive of life the exterminator dispatched the termites with professional efficiency

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3
as in murders
to put to death deliberately during his reign of terror the dictator dispatched thousands without the slightest qualm

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4
as in defeats
to achieve a victory over they dispatched the other team without breaking a sweat

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dispatches

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noun

plural of dispatch
1
as in letters
a message on paper from one person or group to another a soldier sending daily dispatches to friends and family back home

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2
as in messages
a piece of conveyed information a dispatch from headquarters regarding a change in battle plans

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Recent Examples of dispatches
Verb
Even though the department no longer dispatches officers to the scenes of minor accidents, LAPD statistics show that enforcement the department’s 308-member traffic bureau has gone up. — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 The officer immediately dispatches that shots had been fired. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026 While Skokie has taken the co-responder approach, Evanston dispatches a civilian-only force to respond to certain calls. — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Instead, calls to the county’s Department of Mental Health help line, which dispatches the mobile response teams, increased by 31% during that same time period. — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026 One night, a cockroach breaches his citadel, and Pratt swiftly dispatches it. — Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026 Stand Up Placer officials said the organization’s Domestic Violence Emergency Response Team, which dispatches advocates to hospitals and crime scenes alongside law enforcement, responded to 856 callouts, up from 812 the year before. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026 Tax season is busy, but the IRS dispatches extra agents to answer calls in the weeks leading up to April 15. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 June 2026 Robin quickly and viscerally dispatches his foe, before going up against a larger swath of enemies who are targeting his former partner-in-banditry Little John (played by Bill Skarsgård). — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Noun
Ada Scott, an elderly reporter who was close to retirement, regularly wrote glowing dispatches about Puente in the 1960s for The East Yolo Record, a newspaper that operated in what is now West Sacramento. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 In the spirit of snacking, here are bite-sized dispatches from some of the Vogue team’s favorite foods at fashion week. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026 As Washington dispatches envoys and Ukraine hits a key Russian Black Sea naval base, both sides dig in for a grinding war that Zelensky warns must bring real consequences for Moscow. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 For common-sense dispatches from the frontier of ETF proliferation and smart portfolio construction, check out the X account and research pieces of Morningstar Research's Jeffrey Ptak. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026 Xinhua News has issued official reports about the disaster and technical dispatches about the science of the glacial lakes. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 Once Lamb starts publishing daily dispatches about her abduction at the hands of Indo‑Trinidadian radicals demanding a ransom, the writing is on the walls that this woman is going to die. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026 The chattiness of Eddy’s dispatches does little to conceal that the novel’s Jamaica is a grim place for gay men. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 The City Council is now considering a bill that would require City Hall to issue emergency notifications any time FDNY EMS has more than 25 pending ambulance dispatches. — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispatches
  1. sends
  2. kills
  3. murders
  4. defeats
  5. letters
  6. messages
  7. ships
  8. destroys
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  • As part of the process, CNBC sends an extensive email survey to all those firms that meet the initial criteria to gather more details about their practice.
    — Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Throughout the flight, Strato sends real-time telemetry to its operator, including altitude, wind conditions, temperature, and icing alerts.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of sends
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  • Moments later, MacKinney storms in, kills one of Colum’s guards, and orders his men to round up the castle’s women and sequester them in the chapel.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Other competitors will likely put up barriers, which kills the fun of having AI at your beck and call.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of kills
Verb
  • By definition, a serial killer is someone who murders two or more people during separate events, with gaps of time in between.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • To get even with Kanan, Juke murders Raq, her surrogate mother.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • Years of practice, games, injuries, triumphs and defeats shape prospects for the ultimate goal — to play hockey professionally.
    — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Which defeats the entire purpose of replay in the first place.
    — Will Leitch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of defeats
Noun
  • Boutrous, though, noted that the letters were sent off days after the ban was already implemented and the media outlets filed suit.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Yet, in her private letters with women, this intimate dimension comes alive.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of letters
Noun
  • Commonly used to carry messages, pigeons became less useful to people after World War II as radio, telephone and other electronic communications became reliable.
    — KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The controller was having trouble hearing the pilots and asked them to repeat their messages, including altitude, several times, according to the audio.
    — Anselm Gibbs, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of messages
Verb
  • The coffee shop ships New York bagels from a national distributor two to three times a week so New Yorkers can get a taste of home.
    — Sheeka Sanahori, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Besides, Matic’s products don’t get FCC approval to begin with — instead, Matic ships them with an off-the-shelf Intel AX210 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip that gets its own approval from the FCC.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of ships
Verb
  • Jains typically do not eat root vegetables because harvesting them destroys the whole plant and harms life-forms around it.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026
  • How IonQ cracked error correction Since making measurements of a qubit destroys its quantum state, researchers can only gather information about their syndromes to know if the qubit has accumulated an error or not.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
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“Dispatches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispatches. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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