applied

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Her team applied the artificial signals to slices of mouse cerebellum.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

They applied towels and told the girls to stay put.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

In just the first 10 days, 116 people from Altadena applied.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Abigail Dow, an applied microeconomist and PhD candidate in economics at Boston University, underscored the correlation between childcare costs and people’s decisions to have children in a recent research paper.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

Jonah wondered if that also applied to boys opening locked safes and looking at secret papers.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix