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applicability

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


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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

We’re early in the discovery of the applicability and how capable this technology is and what it can do for customers.

From Barron's • Oct. 8, 2025

As the court explained, “that language is expansive and unqualified, confirming applicability to every such person.”

From Slate • Jul. 9, 2025

Entirely new rules are dealt with under a similar process known as an applicability motion.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan