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- verb Present participle of
apply .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nevertheless, the grant was more than welcome, he added; his plan had been to spend the rest of the term applying for increasingly scarce grant money to support his work.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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The project of bringing economic reasoning to bear on social problems is usually loaded with neoliberal assumptions and ideological biases, and its boosters are distressingly naive about the past damage done in the name applying market know-how.
Mark Engler: Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded "Paean to Economists" Mark Engler 2011
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The project of bringing economic reasoning to bear on social problems is usually loaded with neoliberal assumptions and ideological biases, and its boosters are distressingly naive about the past damage done in the name applying market know-how.
Mark Engler: Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded "Paean to Economists" Mark Engler 2011
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The project of bringing economic reasoning to bear on social problems is usually loaded with neoliberal assumptions and ideological biases, and its boosters are distressingly naive about the past damage done in the name applying market know-how.
Mark Engler: Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded "Paean to Economists" Mark Engler 2011
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The project of bringing economic reasoning to bear on social problems is usually loaded with neoliberal assumptions and ideological biases, and its boosters are distressingly naive about the past damage done in the name applying market know-how.
Mark Engler: Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded "Paean to Economists" Mark Engler 2011
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On the other hand, Monotheism, like Polytheism, is a term applying primarily to a concrete system of religion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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[Startling hypothesis!] 'He then exemplified the conditions by placing some pieces of paper on a table, and slapping his hand down close to them, thus making them fly off, which he termed applying the momentum.
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Now the work of Priestley's which I refer to as applying the prophecy of Isaiah to the Jewish nation, as I do, is entitled
Five Pebbles from the Brook George Bethune English 1807
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I don’t believe, and never have believed, that the current occupant of the white house is a Christian, in the definition of the term applying to someone who even attempts to follow the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene.
Think Progress » Rice Was Against Iraq Group Before She Was For It 2006
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Her own words show that race is a factor in applying the law with her, she feels she will make a better decision than a white male because she is a female latina.
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings 2009
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