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[uh-plahy] / əˈplaɪ /






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Strong enough to control and apply finish to level.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Some people worry that too much regulation will just prompt students to party off campus, where the rules won’t apply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Depending on the value of your total foreign assets, other reporting requirements can apply as well.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

During a conversation, they recognized that the same rule known to govern jet formation in relatively small black holes also seemed to apply to their supermassive counterparts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

We would stick it to the egg, apply too much pressure, and end up covered in yolk.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

He still applies to new fellowships as they come up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

That applies to both camps in the debate, since no one can be sure how billionaires will react to the tax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It was updated shortly afterwards to say it applied to England and Wales but this has now been corrected to state it only applies to England.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

This also has the benefit of side-stepping the genetic mismatch problem, which applies to the corals, not the symbionts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

REELTOK: Free speech applies to everybody, even people who are mixed up.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Faced with a lack of dedicated facilities, Cascione applied the same philosophy he used when his baseball team had to rent a field: adapt and overcome the obstacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

In October, he unlocked his job-application account at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and realized that a role he applied for in 2024 had finally been filled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The USC researchers explored whether a similar strategy could be applied to GMPs, allowing them to generate engineered macrophages and other immune cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

His comments go much further than the gentle diplomatic pressure Malaysia's government has so far applied, but they reflect a simmering frustration with Indonesia's inability to control the fires.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Velia scrubbed away the thick layer of rouge Juanita had applied to his cheekbones in the dark.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Then he cast a wider net, applying to software engineering and other roles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

A 50-person citizen fire brigade became famous during the Palisades fires, and now volunteers are applying by the hundreds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Successfully applying transmission strings to WASP-17b demonstrates that the technique could be used to study the atmospheres of many other exoplanets.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Initially refusing Medicare and applying later, or canceling and reapplying, triggers a late-enrollment penalty.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

“I know some people applying to that. It sounds competitive.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam


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