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  • past participle of apply.
  • past tense form of apply.
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applied

[uh-plahyd] / əˈplaɪd /


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Li, 28, estimated he has applied for roughly 100 jobs since he started his hunt last fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Although the experiments do not prove that Neanderthals actually applied birch tar to wounds, they demonstrate that the material they were capable of producing had properties that could have made it useful for medical care.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The City of Los Angeles applied for two of LAHSA’s functions, the homeless database and the matching system, but scored below Los Angeles County in both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The court confirmed that he too has now applied to appeal against his conviction.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But plenty of women applied for the job.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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