applicability

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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

Finnish Customs said it was still investigating "the applicability of EU sanctions legislation to this case."

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

Estados Unidos Mexicanos thwart case-by-case determination of PLCAA’s applicability, a process that promotes careful explication of the law.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

Once those discussions are concluded the UK government can either send it back to the assembly for a cross-community vote known as an applicability motion or decide the rule should not apply in Northern Ireland.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

By 1923, the tenth anniversary of Bohr’s atomic model, physicists were questioning its general applicability.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik