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as in to relate
to have a relation or connection does your rule about calling home apply to me as well?

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as in to exert
to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively apply pressure to the area to stop the bleeding

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Recent Examples of apply Businesses from anywhere in the nation can apply, but selection priority is given to businesses within the Kansas City area, on both sides of the state line. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025 The immunity would not apply in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct by the dispatcher. Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025 Price limits could also be applied to other commodities. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 15 Oct. 2025 Regional restrictions may apply. Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for apply
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Verb
  • Investigators did not say how the trio was related.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The decision, described as personal and health-related, ends a tenure marked by consistent postseason appearances and a steady hand in the dugout.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Most of these patients devoted hours every day to managing their condition.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Just because the administration has no legal authority to designate a domestic terrorist organization, Aceves said that does not mean the administration won’t devote a great amount of resources toward it.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Controlling a fire means ensuring that the fire can't spread or cross the containment line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • These swells are expected to spread toward the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bahamas tonight and on Saturday.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • The team used human stem cells to create three-dimensional, embryo-like structures that replicate early human development, including the formation of blood stem cells.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This watch guide was created using technology provided by Data Skrive.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Not the first time There is also concern over the extent of influence the Trust seeks to exert over Tata Sons’ capital allocation decisions, according to Dalal.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The United States has also known about the issue for some time, with negotiators in the Biden administration aware that some hostages were held by factions in Gaza over which Hamas does not exert full control.
    Ami Kaufman, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Juneteenth recognizes the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln had signed more than two years earlier.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2025
  • After dissolving their own three-person police force, the village has struggled to find a way to enforce village laws, the mayor said.
    Erin Glynn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • People from across all walks of life are asked around 50 questions pertaining to the economy, personal finances, job prospects, inflation expectations and the like.
    Joanne Hsu, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • The quick and portable system also gives investigators the ability to do DNA analysis anywhere without the need for a labratory.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • However, since the announcement, discourse around who should and shouldn’t be given wings exposed just how stuck in the past some viewers still are.
    Essence, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Apply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apply. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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