applied

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The preference from his mother was always that Pellegrino Matarazzo would use his degree in applied mathematics to go get a job in finance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

In just the first 10 days, 116 people from Altadena applied.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Abigail Dow, an applied microeconomist and PhD candidate in economics at Boston University, underscored the correlation between childcare costs and people’s decisions to have children in a recent research paper.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

When an electric field is applied, it changes the orientation of each atom's quantization axis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

The law that applied to her was the law of sacrificial love.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri