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“It’s one of the most used-up chord sequences in the history of music,” Lanois says of “Make You Feel’s” descending progression.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

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

Here’s someone who wants to be unshackled from convention, but is tied to such used-up ideas.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2015

Past the barn he ran, and past the used-up haystack and the bunkhouse and the cypress tree.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck




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