applicability

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He reinterprets even Lincoln’s best-known private and public writings with unerring applicability and deploys a surprising number of observations that contemporaries shared with each other about Lincoln—tidbits that have largely escaped notice by other scholars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Finnish Customs said it was still investigating "the applicability of EU sanctions legislation to this case."

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

As the court explained, “that language is expansive and unqualified, confirming applicability to every such person.”

From Slate • Jul. 9, 2025

Entirely new rules are dealt with under a similar process known as an applicability motion.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

By 1923, the tenth anniversary of Bohr’s atomic model, physicists were questioning its general applicability.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik