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implement

[im-pluh-muhnt, im-pluh-ment, -muhnt] / ˈɪm plə mənt, ˈɪm pləˌmɛnt, -mənt /




Usage

What are other ways to say implement? An implement is any tool or contrivance designed or used for a particular purpose: agricultural implements. An instrument is anything used in doing a certain type of work or producing a certain result, especially such as requires delicacy, accuracy, or precision: surgical or musical instruments. A tool is a contrivance held in and worked by the hand, for assisting the work of (especially) mechanics or skilled laborers: a carpenter's tools. A utensil is especially an article for domestic use: kitchen utensils.

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Some advocates have said that those two companies are best positioned to implement more systematic, age-based controls rather than specific, age-based content bans for individual apps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

But if past is prologue, the courts won’t willingly implement reform.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

He previously served as Mexico’s security minister, helping implement former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial “hugs, not bullets” strategy, which emphasized addressing the root causes of crime instead of military confrontations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

A good VPN provider will implement technical measures to minimise slowdown as much as possible, but it won’t eliminate it.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Fuller based his work on the principle he had learned at Case Western, the belief that if conditions were to improve for poor people, they themselves would have to implement the necessary changes.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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