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reuse

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


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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

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

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

Sometimes she will ask Valdez to scan a shirt she may need for a character; other times she reuses assets that already exist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

By flying its own cargo 30 times in a year on rockets it reuses, the company’s engineers can optimize the launch vehicles.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 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

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

One leading idea is that evolution reused biological systems that already existed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

The Falcon 9 now launches about 150 times a year with boosters that are capable of being reused dozens of times.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Ugwu nearly choked when he came close and realized that the rotten smell came from her water: it had previously been used to soak cassava, perhaps for days, and was being reused.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"People should be alert to scammers reusing the data and so knowing details such as phone numbers and car registration numbers," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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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