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reuse

[ree-yooz, ree-yoos] / riˈjuz, riˈjus /


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It said the event was "built around the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle... and supporting families with the cost of the new school year".

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Starship's enormous payload capacity and planned rapid reuse make it well suited for ambitious projects such as lunar bases, Mars missions, and massive satellite constellations.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

The company said it expected to reuse the recovered booster by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

In my case, swapping out jackets or ties or wearing the same suit with different-color shirts are easy ways to reuse pieces without repeating outfits.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

Such reuse of old materials is not unknown, though nobody has ever seen it with a gourd three thousand years old.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

RadixArk’s inference engine reuses KV cache by organizing conversation snippets into a filing system called a Radix tree.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

She also reuses the old cards to new ones and has let go of old cassettes and CDs.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2026

The human brain repeatedly reuses the same cognitive "blocks" across many different situations, combining and recombining them to form new patterns of behavior.

From Science Daily Nov. 28, 2025

There, leaders plan to purchase a historically protected former lifesaving station to use for work force housing, and a “house recycling” program relocates and reuses older homes that have been slated for demolition.

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2024

Like well-run factories, cells are thrifty; part of the cellular machinery chops up and reuses anything that is floating around inside, including bits of the cell and foreign invaders such as viruses.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It expects the first stage of the Long March rocket to be reused for flight by the end of the year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

Such materials could potentially be reused or fully recycled at the end of their service life.

From Science Daily Jun. 15, 2026

Alongside materials recovered from the site that are to be reused, more than 100 tonnes of stone were delivered by helicopter earlier this year in preparation.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

The hackers used a common tactic known as credential stuffing to access the data, which exploits weak and reused passwords.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

The Sun’s stellar ash can be reused for fuel only up to a point.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Rather than simply reusing existing wax, queen cell builders actively collect, modify, and enrich materials used in royal chambers.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

Japan has a poor recycling rate, reusing not even 20 percent of municipal waste, according to the National Institute for Environmental Studies.

From Barron's Mar. 25, 2026

But Iran has largely abandoned the idea of firing missiles from underground launch locations, according to Eveleth, owing to the technical difficulties of reusing silos.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

He explained that while recycling some items can be a good way to go, the process still produces emissions, so "by reusing things you're generating far less carbon".

From BBC Nov. 28, 2025

I don't mind reusing a towel, but if they're charging that much for a hotel, I want my sheets changed every day.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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