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Recent Examples of apps
ICEBlock and similar apps have been available on Apple’s app store since the spring.
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Rather than simply reflecting pre-existing social and romantic struggles, dating apps can also intensify these difficulties through dating app burnout — a cycle of disappointment, rejection and emotional exhaustion.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
This feature has set Android apart from iOS for years by allowing users to install apps from other app stores or indie developers without those apps having to live in the Google Play Store.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Rather than simply reflecting pre-existing social and romantic struggles, dating apps can also intensify these difficulties through dating app burnout — a cycle of disappointment, rejection and emotional exhaustion.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
This feature has set Android apart from iOS for years by allowing users to install apps from other app stores or indie developers without those apps having to live in the Google Play Store.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apps
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Unlike at other bars that attempt something similar, the two cocktails drink almost identically.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
22 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Berke urged the commission to eliminate the practice of allowing customers to roam the street with cocktails in hand.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
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The high-end omakase restaurant offers a 15-course tasting menu featuring seasonal sushi, appetizers and more with fish flown in fresh from Tokyo daily.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Jan. 2026
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Look for elevated cocktails and a small menu of appetizers, sandwiches, and small plates.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
21 Jan. 2026
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With most starters sitting out the preseason opener and Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel dealing with hamstring injuries, Stefanski turned to Sanders as the starter and primary option Friday night.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
9 Aug. 2025
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The current phase expands participation to additional countries and concentrates on issues such as prevention of major equipment failures, safety classification of systems, and scenarios involving loss of external power supplies.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Independent digital and analog power supplies, along with ELNA capacitors, deliver clarity, dynamics and tonal accuracy.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Use them for serving finger foods, grabbing items from a hot toaster, or serving on a buffet.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
21 Dec. 2025
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For example, a traditional caprese salad can be transformed into finger foods by alternating cherry tomatoes, chunks of mozzarella and leaves of basil on skewers.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
23 Nov. 2025
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“Apps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apps. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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