usable

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However, when electricity is priced below 20 cents a kilowatt-hour, the systems might not make up their cost in energy savings during their usable lives, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

A single well supplies much of the village's usable drinking water.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Leave them behind for an extra day or two and they’re no longer usable.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

Since snakes often go long periods without eating, usable samples are not always available.

From Science Daily • May 26, 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