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reuse

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


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SpaceXAI promised that it would build a water reuse facility, but that project has been suspended.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

"Personally, I say use gems as they're bigger and more impactful, plus you can peel them off at the end of night and reuse them in the morning."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Instead of attempting full reusability from the beginning, the design focuses on partial reuse while maximizing efficiency.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

Users can opt out by going to settings, selecting “sharing and reuse” and turning off the option that allows others to create with and reuse their content.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

“I had the pattern for the piratas and everything. I bought hooks for their hands and was even going to reuse those patches that Merci used to wear for her eye exercises.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

The human brain repeatedly reuses the same cognitive "blocks" across many different situations, combining and recombining them to form new patterns of behavior.

From Science Daily Nov. 28, 2025

The Falcon 9 holds the record for the highest number of launches and reuses in U.S. history.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2025

That maximum travel figure rises to 40,118 km overall for two reuses and 72,616km for three.

From BBC Dec. 9, 2022

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

"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

The hearths often overlap one another, showing that the same area was reused repeatedly.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2026

But Hephaestus had also said, Everything can be reused.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The company is reusing some subsystems from that flight, a strategy intended to speed development and reduce risk while supporting NASA's goal of creating commercial lunar landers that can operate repeatedly and at larger scales.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

She works with a range of designers and brands, but says she also keeps costs down by reusing items as much as possible.

From BBC Aug. 9, 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 don't mind reusing a towel, but if they're charging that much for a hotel, I want my sheets changed every day.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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