1
as in applied
to put a layer of on a surface
she lays the butter on so thickly that you hardly taste the bagel
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as in employed
chiefly British
to provide with a paying job
lay on more staff for the busy tourist season in the Lake District
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Council members chose to open a public application to find her successor, and more than 110 people applied for the job.
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Adams and her dad applied pressure on the neck wound with beach towels.
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Nearly a year after that settlement, Miller is still employed by the carrier, now in video production on its global communications team.
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The agency employed 74,000 people at the beginning of the 2026 tax-filing season, a 27% reduction from the 102,000 employees a year earlier, Collins wrote.
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While proudly rooted in Italy, the business today features 260 stores spread across 60 countries, giving it a front-row seat to how the world spectates and celebrates the game.
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Investigators found that initial structural failure spread to other elements of the pool deck and street-level parking garage and caused cracks to grow over the span of a few weeks, eventually unseating the southern edge of the pool deck slab from its supporting wall, the report said.
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But a director hired to helm a pilot, as James Burrows, who died Friday at 85, was again and again — almost as a lucky charm — helps set the tone for the series.
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Firms hired large classes of associates, assigned them substantial quantities of legal work, billed clients for that work, and promoted a relatively small percentage into partnership.
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Quitting alcohol was counter-revolutionary, enshittification posing as maturity, like downloading an app on attachment styles instead of just going out and getting laid.
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The floors were laid with black-and-white limestone tiles.
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With Davis’ contract experience, Schein recruited him at CBS.
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In early 2011, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recruited him to manage its cyberwarfare initiatives.
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The costume—doofy top hat, smeared white paint—suggested full commitment to the bit.
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Over in the next aisle, Gifty Anderson, who typically buys bales from Canada and the United Kingdom, held up a dress smeared with body makeup and tossed it aside without a second thought.
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“Laid on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20on. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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