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applicability

[uh-plik-uh-bil-i-tee] / əˌplɪk əˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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And though a film’s contextual significance is an important part of determining what is and isn’t a timeless movie, applicability isn’t everything, either.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

"This development establishes a new foundation for generating fragile-to-robust nonreciprocal quantum resources with future practical applicability," says Nori.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

"We have shown this technology has broad applicability including military operations and for homeland defense," Northrop told AFP in a statement.

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

He reinterprets even Lincoln’s best-known private and public writings with unerring applicability and deploys a surprising number of observations that contemporaries shared with each other about Lincoln—tidbits that have largely escaped notice by other scholars.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

In real life, the biomedical sciences have not yet reached the stage of any kind of general applicability to disease mechanisms.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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