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useful

[yoos-fuhl] / ˈjus fəl /


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Instead, it’s a useful way to respond to clients who ask him why lots of smart investors haven’t snatched away all of the excess-return hacks that finance professors have identified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Strong lensing is especially useful for measuring the mass concentrated near a cluster's center, while weak lensing can reveal how matter is distributed across its outer regions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

For Czutkowna, organisations need to think harder about how long their products can remain useful - and who could benefit from them.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

"The market is no longer paying full geopolitical premium on every headline, and that is probably the most useful signal in the morning price action," wrote SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Like the boy felt useful helping the residents of Shady Glen.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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