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utilization

[yoot-l-ahy-zey-shuhn] / ˌjut l aɪˈzeɪ ʃən /


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Despite aggressive expansion, the company’s overall wafer utilization rate was 93.7% in the June quarter, up from 93.1% in the March quarter, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Adnoc L&S said lower utilization and reduced day rates for its jack-up barge fleet partly reflected the regional geopolitical environment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Health insurers’ profits have been pressured by higher medical costs, driven by a range of factors including more utilization of medical services and higher costs of pharmaceuticals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

At the moment, the only negative factor affecting my credit is high credit utilization.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

“There is no better utilization of nervous energy than into ingredients that can make the stomach happy. Isn’t that right, Chandrashekhar?” she said to Oso, and dropped a piece of idli for him to eat.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

“Crucially, we also believe we are at the crux of a gross margin inflection point, driven by improving utilizations and GlobalFoundries aggressively expanding into accretive end-markets,” Muse wrote.

From Barron's May 4, 2026

The lower chemicals utilizations were already well flagged by the company, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

The reduced utilizations, Rand found, occurred because the subjects decided to delay or forgo treatments, possibly inadvisedly.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2025

"Petrouchka" has a brilliance and vivacity and madness that makes Rimsky's scenes from popular life, his utilizations of vulgar tunes and dances scarcely comparable to it.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

Both utilizations depended upon the supply of current now cheaply obtainable from the dynamo.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer




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