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[yoo-zuh-buhl] / ˈju zə bəl /


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Its chip-manufacturing technology is gaining traction with customers and producing better yields, he said, referring to the amount of usable chips that come from a single wafer.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Boyle Heights resident Margarita Amador, the neighborhood council’s secretary, said she wants the park to be “protected, safe and usable for the community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

But why does that surplus exist, and why can perfectly usable clothing be so difficult to pass on?

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Refining partners such as Italpreziosi in Tuscany process raw gold, scrapped jewelry or old electronics into usable metal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The method provided only relative distances, not absolute distances, but even so it was the first time that anyone had come up with a usable way to measure the large-scale universe.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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