usable
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That uncertainty is especially important because a future with more powerful rainstorms does not necessarily mean the lakes will receive more usable water.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The plan is to build the underlying infrastructure followed by “providing the greatest possible software solution for making it usable, easy, accessible and efficient,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
This has created what the IEA described as a “disconnect between apparently well-supplied crude-oil markets and tight product markets,” where the raw crude is actually more plentiful than its usable output.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Only a third of the masks in England's pandemic stockpile were usable, the inquiry found, while Scotland had no supplies of high-grade respiratory masks used in hospitals.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He knew he would not find anything edible along the way; there might be usable food at the underground post itself, but he could not count on that.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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