usable
adjective
us·able
ˈyü-zə-bəl 
variants
or less commonly useable
1
: capable of being used
2
: convenient and practicable for use
Examples of usable in a Sentence
Is any of this junk usable?
although the spade is usable as a snow shovel, it doesn't do a very good job
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Nebius’ advantage comes from the company’s position in scaling in the scarcest part of the software stack — powered data center capacity — and its ability to turn GPU investment into usable clusters as customer demand grows, wrote analyst Michael Donovan.
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Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
Testers found the concept impractical due to clothing sleeves and the difficulty of capturing usable camera angles from the wrist.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
Down the middle of an open park space, taking up as much usable space as possible, etc.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
In laboratory tests, the cell retained more than 85% of its usable capacity after eight hours at –29°F, a range where conventional batteries typically suffer dramatic performance losses.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
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Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
Testers found the concept impractical due to clothing sleeves and the difficulty of capturing usable camera angles from the wrist.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
Down the middle of an open park space, taking up as much usable space as possible, etc.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
In laboratory tests, the cell retained more than 85% of its usable capacity after eight hours at –29°F, a range where conventional batteries typically suffer dramatic performance losses.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for usable
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“Usable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usable. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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