useful
Example Sentences
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It turns out that empathy can be particularly useful in a venture capital world where star founders often get to choose their investors – and not the other way around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
It said using eDNA swabs was a "potentially useful monitoring tool" for ecologists as data could be easily missed in 'one-off' surveys like a visual bat box check.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Conventional heat engines turn heat into useful work.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Describing some of the ideas raised during this time as useful, Ocasio-Cortez said, “during lockdown, of course — rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
It was to give me something to do, to make me feel useful.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
