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Severn Trent said measures people could take to reduce their usage included:
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“I know my usage is a lot lower,” Hamby said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Startup Vercel said DeepSeek’s share of AI usage rose to 23% in June from 1% in April on the Vercel platform, while DeepSeek’s share of AI spending stayed in the low single digits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
While check usage has continued to dwindle, experts say they still have a foothold in the modern economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Mr. Golden, still getting maximum usage from his beloved Grade Sorter, raved about the design to one of his former classmates, the director of a big city think tank in Richmond, Virginia.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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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
Galileo and his correspondents happily discuss facts, but there are Italian usages from much earlier, from the 1570s.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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