usage

Example Sentences

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And now, royalty checks arrive for the usage of her songs in films like “The Drama.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

In the hybrid system, customers buy an allotment of usage tokens, as the basic unit of AI computing is known.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Straight vertical expectations for memory-chip demand took a hit late last month when researchers at Alphabet subsidiary Google claimed they could “compress AI memory usage to one-sixth” with a new technology called TurboQuant.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Reeves acknowledged that gas usage would go up in the autumn – when Ofgem's current price cap for households in England, Scotland and Wales expires.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

In resigning themselves to the role of chronicling ever-changing usage, they are acknowledging the wisdom of Thomas Carlyle’s famous reply to Margaret Fuller’s statement “I accept the universe”: “Gad! She’d better.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker