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Example Sentences

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If you’re not a U.S. citizen, there are a few conditions that apply.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

She is banned indefinitely but can apply to have this reviewed after two years.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

In the abstract, the pope’s words might apply to any number of leaders, including Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

However, their affiliated fundraising arms – including those supporting athletics – are set up as separate nonprofit foundations and typically need to apply for and receive that designation.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton