usages

plural of usage
as in uses
the act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose the machine's warranty does not cover malfunctions that result from improper usage

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Recent Examples of usages The vector space of all usages of all words in all human languages. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026 The Montour Trail sees upwards of 400,000 trail usages yearly. — Megan Shinn, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 Yet another defense is that at least some usages of Daniels’ NIL are newsworthy. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Save the most expensive ones for the most critical and revenue-generating usages. — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Pitch-calling from the dugout may be at the center of this battle and is one of the usages the league appears to be targeting. — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 16 July 2026 And the deepfake usages, while clearly labeled as satire when Deep Voodoo does it, can still contribute to a culture of mistrust online. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026 These usages are meant to tell us something about the state of contemporary politics in the United States—although exactly what is not always clear. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026 Some of the earliest kind of public usages of this license plate loophole, so to speak, are with RVs. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
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Noun
  • The land hosted a commercial laundry, metal refinery and other industrial and retail uses dating back to the mid-1800s, according to an environmental consultant’s report.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
  • While hunter-gatherers from that time are known to have used their teeth as tools — holding, breaking, stretching things — none of those uses matched the grooves on these teeth.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Potential applications span energy, healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace, communications and security.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Efficiently packing high-dimensional spheres into their abstract spaces has surprisingly practical applications to digital communication technology.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That’s not the case for many other ab exercises, such as crunches, which tend to target only one area.
    — Christa Sgobba, HEALTH, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Those exercises laid the groundwork for the space shuttle program, which kicked off in 1981 with the launch of Columbia.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Usages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/usages. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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