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Recently, the Lazard team has been applying a “life cycle score” in its valuation analysis for companies, whereby its quant models value younger companies with more room to grow differently than older, more mature companies.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Patrick Dunne, who runs the educational Harmony Project which uses the concept in more than 100 schools in the UK, has been applying the principles in a place of extreme conflict, the war in Ukraine.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Since learning that the program would end, Aleman said she has been applying for jobs to help her husband cover bills.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024

The prospect of peak rates has been applying downward pressure on the U.S. dollar.

From Reuters • Apr. 19, 2023

Now the fact should be recalled that Dr. Herz's principal object was the application of the telephone to long lines, and he has been applying himself to this problem ever since.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 by Various