Example Sentences

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But increasingly, the company is applying its ceramics expertise to make electrostatic chucks, a chip-manufacturing component.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

This is the flexibility that Dr. Makary claims the agency is applying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

There are lots of requirements when a person is applying for asylum, and my understanding is that they have followed them all.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

The immunotherapy treatment used in the trial is not available on the NHS, but Professor Bahl is applying to the Cancer Drugs Fund to pay for the small number patients who may benefit.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2025

She works as a paralegal, is applying to law schools nearby.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri