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There will be time limits on app usage, she said, "but what about the content on the platform?"
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
If the building doesn’t already have them, submeters can be installed so that tenants receive bills for their individual usage of electricity or water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Washington noted that higher usage of agentic work units is complementing core seat growth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Federal officials say their plan to cut usage is necessary because the seven states that lie on the river have been unable to agree amongst themselves.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Another firestorm can be extinguished by recalling that the conventions of usage are tacit.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Token usages are how developers measure and pay for AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
What are some unique butter techniques or usages that some may not be familiar with?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
The notes — which detail pronunciation and vowel usages — reinforced the veracity of the most accurate of the key manuscripts, the Aleppo Codex, he said.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
But anyone who read that understood what Dean was saying—he wasn’t arguing, the Times was not arguing, that in our actual journalism we will prohibit that word under all cases and usages.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2021
So how can we reconcile the conviction that certain usages are wrong with the absence of any authority that ever decided what was right?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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