usable

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This means energy from wireless transmissions or other ambient sources could potentially be transformed into usable electricity without relying on conventional diodes or other bulky electronic components.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Still, the WireGuard protocol ensures optimal performance in many cases, and the speeds we got during testing were still completely usable for most tasks.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

A single well supplies much of the village's usable drinking water.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Tech workers are walking around talking to AI, pairing dictation apps with coding tools to turn rambling prompts into usable text in seconds—a process that can be both efficient and obnoxious.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The method provided only relative distances, not absolute distances, but even so it was the first time that anyone had come up with a usable way to measure the large-scale universe.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson