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as in applying
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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as in employing
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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Normally, credit bureaus tally any credit checks within a 45-day period as one credit check, and your credit score shouldn't go down more than several points when applying to multiple lenders.
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Madonna divorced from Guy Ritchie in 2008, before applying to adopt Mercy, and her adoption application was initially rejected by the courts.
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The case garnered national interest because Oregon's new law targets the loopholes large staffing firms have been employing to circumvent state corporate medicine laws.
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The metaphor of a ‘wall of separation’ At the same time, religious reformers were employing concepts of walls, hedges or other barriers to ensure that the secular and religious realms remained apart.
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Winslow has been on a ventilator and is now battling septic shock, with organ failure and a spreading infection.
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Ukraine's drone revolution is spreading from the air to the ground.
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Mizuho Americas analyst Dan Dolev told the Journal that the majority of these cuts probably trace to a post-pandemic hiring correction rather than AI itself.
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An American brand can open a local Hong Kong dollar account, a Vietnamese dong account, or a Portuguese euro account without ever setting up a foreign legal entity, leasing an office or hiring a single local employee.
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At the entrance of Kollparay, Quispe pauses, taking my hands and smearing them with soil—the soil of her village.
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This will lead to smearing dust particles around instead of picking them up, which is where a wet cloth comes into play.
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Now, the Twins run baseball operations and Masubuchi has retired from recruiting.
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The group plans on recruiting 50,000 volunteers and is actively fundraising to pass the measure.
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Nadal has long been laying the foundation for a business portfolio that spans health, sport and education.
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The eggs are bound together by a super-glue-like mucus the mother produces while laying them, making an exact count difficult.
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There is less emphasis on taking on the creative burden himself.
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Old school computer gamers will be intimately familiar with the dungeon crawler genre, popularized by games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder, which involves moving in first-person on a grid, taking on monsters, finding treasure and delving deeper into a labyrinth.
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“Laying on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laying%20on. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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