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Finding ways to reduce credit-card balances and reducing credit-card usage that can’t be repaid monthly are “going to be even more important now,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
The UK's ambition is seen as relatively modest in terms of continuous AI usage for the NHS, national security and financial services by 2030.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Lucas shared the clip to bolster her argument that humans are too trusting of AI and everyone should limit their usage of the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Kelly Garrett, who farms 9,000 acres in western Iowa, said his corn-seed usage with a variable-rate planter dropped to 29,000 seeds an acre from 34,000 seeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It may have been Galileo, in Salusbury’s translations, who made Digby’s usage respectable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Token usages are how developers measure and pay for AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
What are some unique butter techniques or usages that some may not be familiar with?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
The Northern Quarter is a "lively, vibrant" area, but as "Manchester is evolving", its "usages are changing", which means the area can now be considered mixed use, the judge said.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Other similarly off-putting usages prompted think tanks and op-ed writers to warn that deepfakes were on the cusp of sparking a war or manipulating an election.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
So how can we reconcile the conviction that certain usages are wrong with the absence of any authority that ever decided what was right?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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