1
as in applied
to put a layer of on a surface
she lays the butter on so thickly that you hardly taste the bagel
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2
as in employed
chiefly British
to provide with a paying job
lay on more staff for the busy tourist season in the Lake District
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Macro factors like lower consumer demand, higher material and labor costs, and a trend in consumer trade-down to lower margin tire products have applied significant margin and growth pressure.—
Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
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And some Venezuelans, who applied to renew earlier this year, had their TPS extended through early April.—
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Student enrollment at Epic had swelled to 60,000 students in 2020-21, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, and the school employed more than 1,600 teachers that year.—
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DeCristo, who is still employed by the university as an assistant professor in the American Studies Department, did not respond to a request for comment from Bee.—
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The group also reported that more than 2,300 people have been arrested and that demonstrations have spread to at least 180 cities nationwide.—
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The band was also unique in allowing fans to tape the concerts, with vigorous trading of tapes helping to spread recognition of their music outside of radio play.—
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Reuters reported Thursday that Comcast had hired bankers from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to sort through a potential bid for some of WBD’s assets.—
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Investigations found the voicemails of public figures were hacked by journalists and private investigators hired by publications who worked on the assumption that few people changed the default voicemail access code their handset came with.—
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That research laid the foundation for studying blood-loss control.—
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The half-zip can be worn unzipped with the collar laid flat, or zipped up and worn as a funnel neck collar.—
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Upon arrival, officers found the injured man and woman, and the officers applied a tourniquet and recruited help from emergency medical personnel, per the release from PPB.—
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To help fill the gap, the research team relied on data from 27,670 adults in Sweden recruited to provide dietary data between 1991 and 1996.—
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Pink and blue clown paint is now smeared all over the driver's side airbag.—
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Hardware stores were the best venue for cheap glues, glazes, and epoxies, which could be smeared, stuffed, and sanded into every crack and crevice.—
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“Laid on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20on. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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