as in use
the capacity for being useful for some purpose
although I appreciate the concern, your help would be of little avail in this situation
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Relevance
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as in to benefit
to provide with something useful or desirable
all your begging will not avail you in the least
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Recent Examples of avail
Dan Walters, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
The 6-foot-1, 195-pound corner, who is on the larger side for the cornerback position, has been challenging McMillan getting off the line to some avail.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2025
Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Beth Bourne availed herself of the allotted 3 minutes of public comment to express her disagreement with school district’s middle school locker room policies and emphasized her point by stripping down to two-piece swimsuit.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Noun
During a state Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, Powell tirelessly peddled interviews with Carter, but to little avail.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
The 6-foot-1, 195-pound corner, who is on the larger side for the cornerback position, has been challenging McMillan getting off the line to some avail.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
Both men availed themselves of substitutes.
—Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Beth Bourne availed herself of the allotted 3 minutes of public comment to express her disagreement with school district’s middle school locker room policies and emphasized her point by stripping down to two-piece swimsuit.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avail
Noun
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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By contrast, Trump’s domestic use of military forces over the past year has more clearly crossed a line by putting the apolitical military in the middle of partisan conflicts.—
Peter D. Feaver,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Dart could certainly benefit from someone like McCarthy, who has coached the likes of Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott since becoming a head coach.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
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Understanding automation and working to create the conditions where workers can benefit from technical advances is an important task for the twenty-first century.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Its usefulness as a host of carbon offset markets is limited, and governments should have no illusions that their annual check-in under the Paris agreement will enforce real accountability, much less create incentives for more ambitious national pledges.—
JESSICA F. GREEN,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Nov. 2025
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To attempt to increase the usefulness and accuracy of benchmarks, several research groups have recently proposed new series of tests that better measure models’ real-world performance on economically meaningful tasks.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Avail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avail. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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