reapplying

verb

present participle of reapply
as in applying

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  1. applying
  2. addressing
  3. devoting
  4. buckling
Verb
  • Agarwal is effectively taking infrastructure developed around one of the most document-heavy and regulated consumer financial transactions and applying it to a wider collection of financial problems.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There is a special difficulty in applying just-war theory to wars between a powerful military and an insurgent group.
    — Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of applying
Verb
  • Identity controls, security measures and guardrails are essential to addressing manipulation and excessive authority.
    — Shekhar Iyer, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The gag was branded by some as weak for not directly addressing the controversy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of addressing
Verb
  • The impact could be significant in terms of medical costs and devoting more funding toward actual care rather than other costs.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The series tries to link all these women together into a tapestry of feminist frustration by devoting a few minutes at the beginning of each episode to an unnamed narrator telling different tales of misunderstood women throughout history.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of devoting
Verb
  • When a buckling spring switch is depressed, a capacitive flipper attached to the bottom of the switch’s spring is forced forward.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
  • His characters confront moments of reckoning—some comic, others karmic, often both—where self-belief collides with a buckling status quo.
    — Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of buckling
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