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the act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose
fixing a snag in panty hose is not the intended application of nail polish, but it's a handy one
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Recent Examples of application
The permit applications showed oil companies requested to flare or vent more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year, enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions of dollars of tax revenue had the gas been captured.
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ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Skills, experience, and application remain the sticking point.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Mario Green repeatedly interfered with her at Henry Ford Hospital, showing up without her permission and trying to grab her, calling her job and threatening colleagues and, most recently, breaking into her car at work, Green wrote in her second PPO application.
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, surveys of recent data from the Common Application (a standard admissions process used by a growing number of colleges) shows that applications to colleges in the South are up 50% since 2019.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
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ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Skills, experience, and application remain the sticking point.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Mario Green repeatedly interfered with her at Henry Ford Hospital, showing up without her permission and trying to grab her, calling her job and threatening colleagues and, most recently, breaking into her car at work, Green wrote in her second PPO application.
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, surveys of recent data from the Common Application (a standard admissions process used by a growing number of colleges) shows that applications to colleges in the South are up 50% since 2019.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for application
Noun
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Here is a quick tour through recent vision tech, with examples of prescription eyeglasses tailored to specific uses.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But lawmakers — both at the state and federal level — have yet to adopt any meaningful guardrails on the usage of artificial intelligence.—
Kyle Ingram,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Sep. 2025
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Maybe a shift in usage that doesn’t show up in box scores.—
Jacob Robinson,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, not all research has come to the same conclusion here, and the effects and benefits may vary according to the regularity of exposure, type of exercise, or between athletes and average Joes.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
4 Sep. 2025
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Internal carbon pricing can range from a purely hypothetical accounting exercise to actual spending on in-house carbon credits, the proceeds from which go into a fund tapped for carbon-cutting activities like energy efficiency upgrades or building onsite renewables.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Along the top of the fire, the crews continue working slowly parallel with, and sometimes on, the McKinley Grove Road, doing clearing vegetation by hand, applying pre-treatment, and conducting critical strategic firing operations to remove heavy vegetation in front of the active fire front.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Today, Interpol unites 196 member countries under the leadership of a secretary general, orchestrating daily operations to combat various international crimes.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Application.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/application. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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