The phrase "administered a spot" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to administering something in a specific location or context, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The nurse administered a spot treatment for the patient's rash."
Alternatives: "applied a treatment" or "gave a localized application".
If the vet administered a spot-on treatment like Frontline, don't bathe the dog for at least 48 hours.
At the moment that terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and indirectly administered a body blow to his business, Barry S. Sternlicht was in one of the most secure spots in America.
Next, they administered a stress test.
It was a battle for fourth spot, a quarter-final as the Leicester captain Ben Youngs put it, and his side administered an old-fashioned knockout.
Once it spots a crown-of-thorns starfish it uses an extended arm to administer a fatal dose of bile salts.
If that process becomes more clear, he imagines creating drugs that target those pathways and could be administered on the spot by emergency personnel to keep someone in a viable state, even in death, until they can reach a hospital.
But she has principles: she wouldn't hurt anybody unless provoked (at which point she can administer an adroit headbutt), and she has a soft spot for the old, the young, birds and animals (though not dogs).
Following informed consent, participants self-administered an English language survey and provided a blood sample on filter paper for a dried blood spot (DBS) specimen.
Next came Nuremberg, which afforded Nazi leaders fair trials; but for obvious reasons the justice it administered had blind spots, and the bombing of Dresden and other crimes against humanity were ignored.
The narrator sums up the tasks that fall to the celebrity's personal assistant with a mordant list: "I scheduled abortions, hired dog walkers, ordered flowers, wrote Mother's Day cards, applied creams, administered injections, squeezed spots, wiped very occasional break-up tears".
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