usage

Example Sentences

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Alongside government action, Albanese urged Australians to limit unnecessary usage of fuel, including switching to public transport where possible to preserve supplies for essential industries.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

The majority of those crude shipments were headed for Asian refineries, and countries there have already taken steps to try to limit energy usage.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Codex, a coding agent, now has more than 2 million weekly users, with usage up 70% month over month, OpenAI said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Developers say token usage adds up extremely quickly, especially when using AI agents to run multiple tasks in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton