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used

Definition for used

adjective as in secondhand

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At one point, a man blew a shofar, the traditional musical horn used in Jewish rituals, to the crowd’s applause.

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Air-traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration workers find themselves caught in the middle of the impasse—and they don’t want to be used as a political football again.

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Mr Stringer said police had told him an accelerant had been used to burn the hives, which were sitting on pallets in a wooded part of the park.

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While staying with her, he used her credit cards to accumulate $20,000 in debt and took out a lot of student loans to go back to school at age 67.

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While the Journal’s analysis identifies the A320 as the worst-affected model, engines have been used to prepare cabin air on almost every jet-powered aircraft since jetliners entered service in the 1950s.

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