Apply
Apply verb - To have a relation or connection.
Make
Make verb - To bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Instead, he figures out how to apply it to metals to make self healing buildings.
Source: The Ageless -
The fact that FU was PM instead of John Major, though, does make this trope apply in earnest, after all.
Source: Series / House of Cards (UK) - Of course it's the label of fascism that is bad, and not the actual definition, so you just make the label apply, and make everyone believe you.
Source: Personal Dictionary
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