usable

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If you're a parent or live with a condition that makes frequent bathroom trips unavoidable, you've likely figured out which public restrooms are usable and which ones to avoid.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Sybilla Masters, who lived in colonial Pennsylvania, invented machinery that mechanized the time-consuming, arduous task of pounding corn by hand into usable meal or flour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Hyperscalers can order servers and deploy them quickly, but the transformer that steps down high-voltage transmission to usable power cannot be rushed, and this creates a fundamental timing mismatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

We are closing side roads to the crash gates to keep these usable but the issue of pavement parking continues.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Marc Andreessen did not invent the Internet or the World Wide Web, but he certainly played a historic role in helping to bring them alive and make them easily usable tools.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman