lays on

verb

present tense third-person singular of lay on
1
as in spreads
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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2
as in employs
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lays on
  1. spreads
  2. employs
  3. applies
  4. hires
  5. lays
  6. recruits
  7. smears
  8. takes on
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  • In July, the US was hit with a wave of explosive diarrhea caused by an outbreak of cyclospora, a parasite that spreads through food and water tainted with human feces.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026
  • As the outbreak spreads and kills people faster than any other outbreak of the disease in history, a major source of concern for monitoring efforts is miners constantly on the move and in hard-to-reach, unsafe territories.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of spreads
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  • Others pointed out that California Forever has political clout because its chief lobbying firm, Axiom Advisors, employs several of Newsom’s friends and former officials.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Raley’s owns and runs more than 100 grocery stores and employs roughly 11,500 workers, according to the company’s website.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of employs
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  • The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat warning that applies to more than 1 million people in San Diego County, mostly across inland valleys, foothills and mountains where high temperatures will approach or exceed 95 to 114 degrees.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The new minimum applies to more than 50 unsolved homicides and missing-person cases in tribal communities.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of applies
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  • After his father’s death, strong and silent Mauro hires a farm hand to work alongside him.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
  • First, and perhaps most importantly, the coaching hires at several top-flight SEC programs have left much to be desired.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
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  • In years past, only a handful of divers have been permitted by the park to descend to the site where the plane’s aluminum body lays upholstered with colonies of invasive mussels.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Alarm bells are sounding in Chicago as another family lays a child to rest after an electric scooter collision.
    — Narmeen Khan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of lays
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  • The star, playing an unnamed Narrator, recruits audience members to help act out a story about grief, as her character recounts her mother’s depression and suicide attempts.
    — Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Every surrogate should have her own independent lawyer paid for by the agency that recruits her.
    — Arthur L. Caplan, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruits
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  • Darker smears around the crater’s rim contain surface rocks and lunar dust called regolith previously altered by solar winds, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation over an extended period of time.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The atmosphere works on them a little bit harder and reduces their strength and smears them a little bit more.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of smears
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  • If no candidate secures a majority of the vote in Tuesday's primary, the contest could head to a runoff later this month to determine who takes on Democrat Annie Andrews in November.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Shadowbox takes on management of Kaufman Astoria after a tumultuous period at the studios.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of takes on
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“Lays on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lays%20on. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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