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After sending a payload of 34 small satellites to orbit, the company used a helicopter to catch the 39-foot-long used-up booster stage of the rocket before it splashed into the Pacific Ocean.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2022

With much of the planet already "used-up", the world has hard choices to make over how to use land in the most sustainable and effective way.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2022

Heizer, who is given to playful lamentation, complains about what New York is turning him into: “A decaffeinated, used-up, once-was quick-draw cowboy, a sissy boy who eats at Balthazar for lunch.”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016

Ash littered the ground and the trees on the property were blackened like used-up matches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2016

Soldiers who’d served their year were waiting for flights out with an exhausted, used-up look in their eyes.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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