The phrase "are working to apply" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing ongoing efforts or actions aimed at implementing something or putting it into practice.
Example: "The team is currently focused on several projects and are working to apply the new strategies we discussed last week."
Alternatives: "are striving to implement" or "are attempting to utilize".
The governor said federal officials accepted a state proposal that would allow people who are working to apply for food stamps online and bypass a face-to-face interview, which had been required to qualify.
He and his colleagues are working to apply the new technique to primate cells, but he says the work is far too preliminary for any clinical applications.
In connection with Science magazine's Breakthrough of the Year special focus, Science's Next Wave went on a search of its own, determined to identify the people who, today, are working to apply new technologies to advance evolutionary science.
SkyCross, a company based in Melbourne, Fla., that has developed commercial applications for some military communications technology, is working to apply the concept to cars and perhaps buildings.
Manfred said that the positive test in England "is an important confirmation of the strength and science involved" in the H.G.H. blood test and that baseball was working to apply the test on a widespread basis.
What is more, under pressure from successive NATO secretaries-general, the State Department and the Pentagon have been working to apply America's restrictions on transatlantic collaboration in high-tech weapons and sensitive technologies more selectively.
In fact, a new consortium called the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) is working to apply blockchain to solve some of the most intransigent problems in trucking.
My team taught me that the lessons of simplicity I'd been working to apply to other parts of my life could be applied to email design, too.
Among other projects, Max is working to apply these algorithms to the environmental causes of disease, with the aim of complementing genetic studies.
We are currently working to apply these and other classes of fluorescent ABPs in additional mouse models of human disease.
