Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of apply.
Etymologies
- apply + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nevertheless, the grant was more than welcome, he added; his plan had been to spend the rest of the term applying for increasingly scarce grant money to support his work.”
“The project of bringing economic reasoning to bear on social problems is usually loaded with neoliberal assumptions and ideological biases, and its boosters are distressingly naive about the past damage done in the name applying market know-how.”
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“On the other hand, Monotheism, like Polytheism, is a term applying primarily to a concrete system of religion.”
“[Startling hypothesis!] 'He then exemplified the conditions by placing some pieces of paper on a table, and slapping his hand down close to them, thus making them fly off, which he termed applying the momentum.”
“Now the work of Priestley's which I refer to as applying the prophecy of Isaiah to the Jewish nation, as I do, is entitled”
“I don’t believe, and never have believed, that the current occupant of the white house is a Christian, in the definition of the term applying to someone who even attempts to follow the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene.”
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“Her own words show that race is a factor in applying the law with her, she feels she will make a better decision than a white male because she is a female latina.”
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
“I'm pretty sure she has never and would never think that race is a factor in applying the law ... unlike David Duke that would support the lynching of any minority.”
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
“I'm pretty sure she has never and would never think that race is a factor in applying the law … unlike David Duke that would support the lynching of any minority.”
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
“Looking through the blogosphere, I appear to be just about the last believer in applying free market principles to labor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘applying’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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