usefully

Example Sentences

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In its willingness to usefully engage with our everyday ugliness, “The Drama” is the boldest mainstream American film in years.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Now allow me to engage in a bit of whataboutism, on the grounds that you can usefully gauge a movement’s health by comparing it to its counterpart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

"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

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

The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley