Peter Bergen

In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power.

American Journalist

Rob Sheffield

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

Paul Scholes

My view is that the signing of players should be a simple process. The chief scout identifies them, the manager decides who he wants, and the chief executive is dispatched to do the deal. It really is as simple as that.

English Athlete

Bill Dedman

After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.

Jack Dorsey

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

American Businessman

Carrie Lam

When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.

Chinese Politician

Jack Valenti

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Patrick O'Brian

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

English Novelist

Jack Adams

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

Canadian Athlete

Buzz Aldrin

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

American Astronaut

The noun form of 'dispatch' often implies a completed action, something that has been done.

Action Oriented

Using 'dispatch' can suggest efficiency and speed in the action being described.

Efficiency Implied

'Dispatch' as a verb often carries a sense of urgency and immediacy in action.

Urgency Connotation

The verb 'dispatch' is commonly used in situations where someone has the authority to send others.

Authority and Decision

When used in the context of killing, 'dispatch' conveys a sense of finality and quick resolution.

Finality Aspect

'Dispatch' can sound clinical or unemotional, especially when referring to death or killing.

Clinical Tone

As a noun, 'dispatch' can refer to news or information sent from one place to another.

News and Updates

'Dispatch' suggests the communication is sent quickly, often for timely updates.

Swift Communication

 All the other naked mole rats, male and female, are either soldiers, who defend the colony from possible invaders, or workers. Teams of workers are dispatched to hunt for roots, and their harvest feeds the whole colony. Living in a colony helps naked mole rats find enough food,

Are naked mole rats the...

 and with the help of the local fisherman, we are collecting sediment from the seabed with a custom sediment sampler we've invented and built. We pack the sediment into small bags, we then dispatch them to hundreds of small bags that we send to different universities,

How I Teach Kids to Love...

 DISPATCHER They're dispatching LAPD units along with all fire trucks that respond to major emergency blazes for our protection. But with respect to trying to get LAPD service or anything else, folks, you're on your own down there.

A Dangerous Night In...

 who was decisive and could act quickly. They called it energy and dispatch. One thing they were dead-set there would be no king. They had fought a war against a country with a monarch and were afraid that one man

Inventing the American...

 the distant cawing of a seagull. But then an annoying whine interrupts the peace, getting closer, and closer, and closer. Until...whack! You dispatch the offending mosquito, and calm is restored.

The science of hearing -...

 Americans dispatched to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan or in support of the wars more than half today say their physical or mental health is worse than before they deployed 18 percent of them say

Lessons we can learn...

 Now the interests of the new males and those of the lionesses differ. Without their fathers to protect them, the cubs are in peril. They're systematically hunted down and dispatched.

Brutal Lion Infanticide...

 these strangers and their words became lifelines, dispatches from people of so many different backgrounds, with so many different experiences, all showing me the same

What almost dying taught...

 dispatched by hundreds of razor sharp jaws the ants make a clean sweep capturing up to one hundred thousand insects in a single raid

Killer Ant Swarm...

 prey the cubs help mum dispatch the diker with ease