application

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He ruled that "the fact that the application is a novel one is not a reason for refusing it".

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

AI “will affect virtually every function, application and process in the company,” Dimon says, adding that AI will eventually reduce the workweek in the developed world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Around the same time, the committee also met to review an exemption application related to water management at the Grayrocks Dam in Wyoming and its effects on endangered whooping cranes downstream in Nebraska.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Let’s see if they put prediction markets to the Clarence Barron test: Is it “the application of money to practical ends,” or mere gambling?

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Just as the astrolabe embodies the medieval application of mathematics to the heavens, the sector embodies the new technical skills of the mathematician applying himself to the world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton