use up
verb
used up; using up; uses up
: to exhaust of strength or useful properties
land that has been used up
Examples of use up in a Sentence
we used up the last of the flour when we made the waffles
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In September 2024, Microsoft signed a 20-year agreement to restart a Three Mile Island reactor for 835 megawatts, while in May of this year, Amazon Web Services purchased a data center next to Pennsylvania's Susquehanna nuclear plant with plans to use up to 960 megawatts.
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Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
After a few days, when these reserves are all used up, the body turns to stored fat and the liver converts the fat into ketones.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
The document also stated the rest of the expansion could use up to 2,814,000 gallons of water per year with wastewater discharge of 2,031,000.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
These features prevent runoff–which can carry pollutants–while recharging local groundwater supplies which in many places is being used up faster than it’s being replenished.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
After a few days, when these reserves are all used up, the body turns to stored fat and the liver converts the fat into ketones.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
The document also stated the rest of the expansion could use up to 2,814,000 gallons of water per year with wastewater discharge of 2,031,000.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
These features prevent runoff–which can carry pollutants–while recharging local groundwater supplies which in many places is being used up faster than it’s being replenished.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Use up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/use%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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