apply (oneself)

verb

Definition of apply (oneself)next
as in to buckle (down)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apply (oneself)
  1. pitch in
  2. dig in
  3. slave
  4. knuckle down
  5. labor
  6. bang away
  7. struggle
Verb
  • Thiel, his old venture partner, seeded a U.S. Senate run with $10 million, then pitched in another $5 million as the race heated up.
    Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Buddy Hield scored 20 points for a fourth straight game and Draymond Green pitched in 18 points, eight rebounds and five assists as six Warriors scored double figures.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of pitch in
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  • The designer started to ponder the idea a couple years ago, while digging in vintage archives during a stay in Paris.
    Sandra Salibian, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Tyler specifically digs in about pregnancy as well as the fears of becoming a father.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of dig in
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  • The scholars borrow from critical theory—including a Marxist focus on the alienation of labor and postmodern pessimism—with some going so far as to compare the resorts to slave plantations.
    Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • During the latter half of that period, according to Marques’s review of British consular reports, more than one-third of all slaving vessels that made landfall in Rio de Janeiro did so under an American flag.
    Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
Definition of slave
Verb
  • On the Tuesday after Labor Day weekend 2019, Scott Jones did his usual morning chore of dropping his eldest kids off at school and returning to his Arizona home office to knuckle down to work.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 17 June 2024
  • The Biden administration appears to be playing at war rather than knuckling down and winning it.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
Definition of knuckle down
Verb
  • Doctors are known for laboring under brutal schedules but a new generation wants more of a work-life balance.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In Game 3, Freeman had a fifth-inning single but was removed in the eighth while laboring at the plate.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of labor
Verb
  • One of the roadies came out to bang away on the piano, the notes more felt than heard, part of the noise.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The manager demonstrated how to use the rock hammers, and then people got to banging away, trying to find opals in the rock.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
Definition of bang away
Verb
  • Thus, consumption of THCV can be beneficial for those who struggle with weight gain and/or food craving.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of struggle
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