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utilization

[yoot-l-ahy-zay-shuhn] / ˌjut l aɪˈzeɪ ʃən /


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While U.S. refineries are running hot at around 97% utilization, Chinese refineries are only running at 75% of their max output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

This reduces utilization and funding risk, the analyst adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Researchers using different extraction techniques produced fractions with different structures and different levels of utilization by gut microbes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Even if you have, say, a $10,000 credit limit on your existing credit card and you spend $8,000 a month, you would still be using 80% of your credit utilization.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The utilization of planetary resources so that new interstellar spacecraft could be constructed locally would be a slow process.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“Crucially, we also believe we are at the crux of a gross margin inflection point, driven by improving utilizations and GlobalFoundries aggressively expanding into accretive end-markets,” Muse wrote.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

The lower chemicals utilizations were already well flagged by the company, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

The reduced utilizations, Rand found, occurred because the subjects decided to delay or forgo treatments, possibly inadvisedly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

"Petrouchka" has a brilliance and vivacity and madness that makes Rimsky's scenes from popular life, his utilizations of vulgar tunes and dances scarcely comparable to it.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

The utilizations of the date palm and its products are very numerous.

From Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various




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