applying

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In December, the White House said it wanted to make social media checks part of the process of applying for the permissions.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The most effective strategy involved sterilizing about 22% of adult female koalas each year in areas with the highest population densities rather than applying the approach across the entire region.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

That’s half a year of looking for work, tweaking resumes, applying, networking and then repeating the process.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Some lenders are applying more conservative underwriting criteria to entire industries because of the threat that AI poses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

He discovered so many elements not so much because he was serially astute as because he developed an ingenious technique of applying electricity to a molten substance–electrolysis, as it is known.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson