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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

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

From Slate Apr. 9, 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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