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use

[yooz, yoost, yoos] / juz, just, jus /


NOUN
custom
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Usage

What is another way to say use? The verb use is a general word: to use a telephone; to use a saw and other tools; to use one's eyes; to use eggs in cooking. As applied to persons, use implies some selfish or sinister purpose: to use another to advance oneself. What is used often has depreciated or been diminished, sometimes completely consumed: a used automobile; All the butter has been used. Utilize implies practical or profitable use: to utilize the means at hand, a modern system of lighting.

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Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to use dogs' extraordinary sense of smell to develop a non-invasive test for the disease.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

He will detail plans to use public investment to "unlock private investment, to support our innovation economy, and to create the new jobs their areas need".

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

They were having group sessions that Catholic Charities called “culture bumps,” which covered topics from ATM use to 911 calls to funeral costs in America.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

I began gently optimizing my library use the way someone might optimize a coffee-shop punch card.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

Tonight, all she wanted was to curl up in her shared room in the house in Inkster-Faraday and not use language at all.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

And the water a data center uses directly is only part of the story.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

This method uses naturally occurring genetic differences among people as a way to test whether a particular biological factor may contribute to an outcome.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

But detecting them can be difficult, since Iran uses a complicated network of front companies and other means to disguise them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Inside the exhibition space, she uses a small painter’s brush to slowly paint the white walls red over the course of the show.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

It is a reasonable question, and the answer is this: There are French words and phrases that only French-speaking people use, and there are French words and phrases that everyone uses.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

"She used this drive to make sense of ancient life through fragments of bone, bringing it to life once again," they said.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Water is used to generate the electricity that powers the data center, and to manufacture its chips and servers.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

They also used genetic methods to investigate whether the relationships might go beyond a simple association.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

“And so now I have to ask you if you still believe that your relationship with him used to be ‘easier’ and ‘simpler.’

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The Bengaluru-based startup Dognosis is using AI to analyse dogs' brain activity, respiration and body language -- turning their reaction to scent into data.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

Since the summer, when 10-year executive director David Hussey was ousted, teachers, parents and others have been using words such as “chaos” and “soap opera” to describe the ongoing controversy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

He breached his licence conditions by not declaring their relationship, and using a second mobile phone to hide his dating site activity.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

The researchers combined single-cell RNA sequencing, which reveals which genes individual cells are using, with spatial transcriptomics, a technique that shows where those cells are positioned and which neighboring cells are nearby.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

The Germans had repaired the bomb damage to the airport and were using it now as a base for air raids against England.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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