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Definition of usefulness
: the quality of having utility and especially practical worth or applicability
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Examples of usefulness in a Sentence
the well-known usefulness of thick phone books as seat boosters for short diners
Recent Examples of usefulness from the Web
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There is also a bad wedding’s structural usefulness.
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Bit by bit, the house began to outlive its usefulness.
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Of this, 6,400 million metric tons has outlived its usefulness and become waste; 79 percent of that waste is sitting in landfills or the natural environment, 12 percent has been incinerated, and just 9 percent has been recycled.
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The agency agreed to pay most of the $100 million cost of the study to better determine usefulness.
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That omission of experience from the product developmental cycle can really bias the usefulness of technology toward one group.
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Sure, the number of things that a virtual assistant can do isn't necessarily the onlyway to judge usefulness, but to say that Google Home and Microsoft are a bit more limited in functionality seems to be a fair assessment.
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But year-to-year comparisons of raw numbers have limited usefulness, Novak said.
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The keyword for this sign and season is usefulness.
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