usefully

Example Sentences

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Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

"However, it has not been known whether the physics of active matter can be applied usefully in the quantum regime. We wanted to fill in that gap."

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

The characters are too particular on the one hand, and the mean girls trope too familiar on the other, to usefully generalize into a statement about the plight of teenage girls.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

Paradoxically, to the extent the law can be usefully deployed as a tactic, the 14th Amendment itself is a tactical enterprise that exists to protect us from tyranny.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024

Without them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson