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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

In Slate, Laura Kipnis complained that, “Here is someone who wants to be unshackled from convention, but is tied to such used-up ideas.”

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2015

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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