application

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Clarence Barron, this magazine’s founder, called investing “the application of money to practical ends,” as opposed to gambling, where “the gains of the successful merely offset the losses of the unsuccessful.”

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Around the same time, the committee also met to review an exemption application related to water management at the Grayrocks Dam in Wyoming and its effects on endangered whooping cranes downstream in Nebraska.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

A federal magistrate judge approved some arrest warrants but rejected a government application to arrest Lemon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Since then, she traveled to Iran four times, disclosing the information in her application last year to become a citizen, Bis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Lily turns in her Yale application, and Mom decides we have to go out for a special dinner to celebrate.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish