applied

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They applied towels and told the girls to stay put.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Early figures show 1,300 residents have already have applied for reconnections through SoCalGas, which serves most of Los Angeles.

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

He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë