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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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
Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Readers may be surprised by a scene in which a young Michaels, himself a comedian, pitches jokes to Woody Allen, to little avail.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Phil Helsel, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2025
No, Trump is simply availing himself of the vast federal apparatus created by liberals on the assumption that an ever-more powerful and extensive federal government was synonymous with righteousness.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Yates took his anger out on a chair, smacking the bench, the redshirt freshman guard dropping 18 points and three threes to little avail.
—Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Readers may be surprised by a scene in which a young Michaels, himself a comedian, pitches jokes to Woody Allen, to little avail.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Verb
Duda urged people to avail themselves to resources like shelters, churches or other facilities set up to help.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2025
No, Trump is simply availing himself of the vast federal apparatus created by liberals on the assumption that an ever-more powerful and extensive federal government was synonymous with righteousness.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avail
Noun
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The Vatican has taken high-tech measures to ensure secrecy, including the use of jamming devices.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
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Adjust Horizontally Misaligned Cabinet Door During installation or even after years of regular use, cabinet doors might slide too far to one side or the other.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 May 2025
Verb
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In Paris, the U.S. presented a framework deal that Kyiv's backers view as benefiting Moscow.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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Economist Tatsuo Hatta, president of the Asia Growth Research Institute, says opening up Japan’s rice market would benefit consumers.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
8 May 2025
Noun
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The change was presented as a quality threshold, with apps failing to deliver the right levels of performance, usability, reliability and even usefulness risking the cull.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Some shared their own experiences validating the usefulness of pre-wedding intel.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Avail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avail. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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