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Recent Examples of apps
ICEBlock and similar apps have been available on Apple’s app store since the spring.
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Rather than simply reflecting pre-existing social and romantic struggles, dating apps can also intensify these difficulties through dating app burnout — a cycle of disappointment, rejection and emotional exhaustion.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
This feature has set Android apart from iOS for years by allowing users to install apps from other app stores or indie developers without those apps having to live in the Google Play Store.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Rather than simply reflecting pre-existing social and romantic struggles, dating apps can also intensify these difficulties through dating app burnout — a cycle of disappointment, rejection and emotional exhaustion.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
This feature has set Android apart from iOS for years by allowing users to install apps from other app stores or indie developers without those apps having to live in the Google Play Store.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apps
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Bar director Justin Sheffey and bar manager Christopher Osman invent new cocktails and innovate concepts on old-school tipples.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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This one-bedroom beauty features a small sitting room and a separate dining/work area which makes hosting cocktails with friends before dinner easier than anticipated.—
Diana Oates,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2026
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Over the years, our Test Kitchen has developed many versions of these two-bite appetizers, but nothing can top these Pimiento Cheese Sausage Balls.—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2026
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The pea and pastry appetizers were especially yummy.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2026
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With most starters sitting out the preseason opener and Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel dealing with hamstring injuries, Stefanski turned to Sanders as the starter and primary option Friday night.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
9 Aug. 2025
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Hospitals are so poorly equipped that patients are asked to provide supplies needed for their care, from syringes to surgical screws.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Gripped by a worsening economic crisis, Cuba’s government recently adopted rationing measures to protect essential services and ration fuel supplies for key sectors.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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The food shies away from the typical — no crab rangoon here — for finger foods that harken to cuisines outside the South Pacific, like Jamaican style jerk shrimp skewers ($18) and salmon ceviche ($16).—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Use them for serving finger foods, grabbing items from a hot toaster, or serving on a buffet.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Apps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apps. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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