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apply (for)

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as in to beg (for)

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In June, the New Jersey attorney general filed a lawsuit against the site’s operator, The GEO Group, urging a court to close the facility until the state could inspect it over longstanding allegations of inhumane conditions.

— Alex Stambaugh, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
On Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast in July, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy reflected on whether the Biden administration took the right approach to public health communication by urging the tech platforms to regulate health misinformation.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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