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reuse

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


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One of the main research questions associated with our fieldwork focuses on the question of tomb placement and tomb reuse – for which the newly discovered tomb carries important scholarly significance.

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

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

She’s probably doing it because her mom wants to be able to reuse it.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

She also reuses the old cards to new ones and has let go of old cassettes and CDs.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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

She said she reuses the Cheetos in her artwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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

"I think it's really important, particularly the grey trousers, the dresses and the whites to be reused because they're all universal and any school can use them."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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

It also shows how existing telescope archives could be reused to search for possible signs of technology without requiring entirely new observing campaigns.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

The idea is improvisation: the foil containers that come from salad bars can be reused as dishes; the lone plate becomes a cutting board.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

The practice of reusing parts from junked cars is common in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The new device, described in the journal Nature, overcomes this challenge by reusing much of the energy needed to run it.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

Rubino says she’s aiming to economize as much as possible — and that means everything from buying lower-priced candy in bulk to reusing baskets from previous Easters.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

The looting dates back millennia, with the Inka having ravaged the centers of their predecessors, sometimes reusing art and stonework.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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