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use

[yooz, yoost, yoos] / juz, just, jus /


NOUN
custom
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Usage

What is another way to say use? The verb use is a general word: to use a telephone; to use a saw and other tools; to use one's eyes; to use eggs in cooking. As applied to persons, use implies some selfish or sinister purpose: to use another to advance oneself. What is used often has depreciated or been diminished, sometimes completely consumed: a used automobile; All the butter has been used. Utilize implies practical or profitable use: to utilize the means at hand, a modern system of lighting.

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Earlier this summer, our law school declared that first-year students will be required to learn to write and reason without technology in the classroom or the use of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Once people love a jar rather than merely use it, corporate ownership can start to feel less like a business transaction than someone acquiring custody of a family recipe.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, for example, could use the particles to identify unwanted impurities in drugs.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

From Sunday, passengers whose train had been cancelled can use another operator's service two hours either side of their train to get to their destination at no extra cost, it added.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

They make ample use of radio broadcasts to convince Filipinos to abandon the United States.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Newton's law of gravitation uses big G to connect mass, distance, and gravitational force.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

That is, Saylor uses investors’ fiat currencies to buy Bitcoin.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

It uses a harmless bacterium to insert DNA into the rootstock exactly where it is needed to give the tree resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

County Library card, which she often uses to read e-books on the Libby app.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Many of the amphorae were covered with written notations, which indicated previous uses such as storing olives or lentils.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Fawley said he enjoyed "sending up colleagues" and that they "secretly used to like it".

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

This type of operation suggests AI can now be used to “produce, adapt and distribute content with minimal human interaction,” the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Because the light used to activate them has a different frequency from the light they emit, researchers can separate the desired signal more easily from background light generated by the sample itself.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

That night, Mom used the Rao’s in my grandmother’s baked spaghetti.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

On school nights, she used to do my hair, and I could smell the jasmine-scented essential oil she dabbed on her wrists.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Thanks to special pricing at a Disney-owned hotel and discounts for using a Disney-branded Visa credit card, Doug Heyden Jr.’s family went to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom for the first time this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration cleared the 250-foot structure Friday, finding it would not pose a substantial hazard to aircraft using nearby Reagan National Airport.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

That combination of high sensitivity and molecular selectivity could make the technology valuable for detecting impurities that are difficult or expensive to identify using conventional methods.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Then this week, China carried out four launches within 48 hours using multiple providers, including LandSpace and the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

At last, using his teeth to tighten the knots, he managed it.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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