usable

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Encoding converts digital data into these pages, while decoding translates them back into usable information.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

We are closing side roads to the crash gates to keep these usable but the issue of pavement parking continues.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Officials and analysts note that Iran does have uranium that could be enriched around the one-week time frame to make it usable for a nuclear weapon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Over the years, she’s traveled by plane, train and automobile in search of usable materials.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer