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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Consistency, applied twice a day every single day over years and decades, is the only thing that genuinely moves the needle on skin health and pleasure is what makes consistency possible.—
Pooja Mistry,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026 -
That or all of Paige's posts are set up for the age restriction trigger, and it was applied to this post in question out of habit.—
Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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The charges relate to alleged misconduct committed between July 2023 and July 2025 while Gearhart was employed as an agent of the Lakewood Police Department.—
Lisa Starke,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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Women continue performing a disproportionate amount of unpaid labor, including childcare coordination, household management, and emotional caregiving -- even while employed full-time.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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The Islamic Center of San Diego's director and imam, Taha Hassane, pleaded with the public to spread tolerance and love instead of hate.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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The staffers, who are spread across more than twenty front- and back-end departments, are organizing under the name Seattle Art Museum Workers United (SAMWU) under the auspices of the Washington Federation of State Employees/AFSCME Council 28.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
18 May 2026
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Money was not available to support testing and port screenings in Uganda when an outbreak was declared last January, one expert told NPR, and another said a majority of USAID's high-risk outbreak specialists were pushed out of the agency and not re-hired.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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To meet their growth targets, banks hired increasing numbers of women, African Americans, Asian Americans, and white ethnics, all of whom had been excluded from or simply wary about pursuing careers in finance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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The stadium crew laid 114 yards of pitch on May 10.—
Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
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It’s laid back, less frenzied than Marrakesh, quite chill.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 May 2026
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To make the dream a reality, Bargatze recruited his neighbor Feliuz Verdigets to be his chief executive.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
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Longoria had been recruited from Valencia as sporting director only six months previously and, despite being only 34 years old, he was installed as president in Eyraud’s place.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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But the pigment and gum are largely invisible, because harding and Upkett smeared them with white paint used by the Carnegie Museum to cover its walls.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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The Orbánists first ignored them, then smeared them.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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“Laid on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid%20on. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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