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used to

adjective as in familiar with

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adverb as in accustomed to

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For example, we used to do a massive, long-term unit on Hawaii, but that ended.

Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to disinfect drinking water to safeguard public health from diseases like cholera and typhoid fever.

Some of these regulatory sequences, called 'enhancers', work like dimmer switches used to modulate the light in our living room.

"Ultimately, this technology will be used to monitor and locate these invasive snakes, thereby validating removal efforts."

Current medications used to treat chronic abdominal pain often rely on opioids.

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