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reuse

[ree-yooz, ree-yoos] / riˈjuz, riˈjus /


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Littlejohns says this ability to reuse knowledge gained through electronics manufacturing will ultimately help lower the cost of photonics.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

And what influenced the decision to reuse them for burial, rather than building new ones?

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Our $220 target is a call on reuse 20–50 flights per vehicle, cheap refurb, fast turnaround,” Wlodarczak said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Chinese company LandSpace Technology recently showed it could reuse a rocket booster, like SpaceX does, a feat that could help it deploy satellites faster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Lots of kids reuse their superhero and princess costumes from Halloween.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

RadixArk’s inference engine reuses KV cache by organizing conversation snippets into a filing system called a Radix tree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

"In the long run, understanding how the brain reuses and recombines knowledge could help us design therapies that restore that process."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025

She said she reuses the Cheetos in her artwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

There, leaders plan to purchase a historically protected former lifesaving station to use for work force housing, and a “house recycling” program relocates and reuses older homes that have been slated for demolition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Like well-run factories, cells are thrifty; part of the cellular machinery chops up and reuses anything that is floating around inside, including bits of the cell and foreign invaders such as viruses.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Buyers pay this premium on aluminum every time it is recycled and reused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"There's no external energy input and it can be reused for batch after batch of feedstock," said Kate Griffiths, a chemical analyst at the Royal Mint.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

At the time, some staff - in desperation - used bin bags as makeshift protection, or washed and reused some PPE items.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

It expects the first stage of the Long March rocket to be reused for flight by the end of the year.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Discarded tin cans are easy: they end up reused as containers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

Japan has a poor recycling rate, reusing not even 20 percent of municipal waste, according to the National Institute for Environmental Studies.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

But Iran has largely abandoned the idea of firing missiles from underground launch locations, according to Eveleth, owing to the technical difficulties of reusing silos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

I’m 29 and have been to a lot of weddings the last couple of years, so I was planning on just reusing a floor-length green dress I already have.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025

“Back home, we think they keep reusing the old footage because the Capitol can't show what’s really there now,” says Bonnie.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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