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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 Subjects will include plant survival strategies and modern and traditional usages. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 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

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Crofton Cast-Iron Dutch Oven There are a million uses for a Dutch oven over the holiday season, from making stunning desserts to baking homemade bread to preparing Grandma’s go-to stew recipe.

— Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2026
The neighborhood’s nineteenth-century commercial lofts were losing the manufacturing uses for which they had been built; artists were moving into them illegally as studios and homes.

— Julian Rose, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

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However, many members will complete a short set of exercises on the machines, then stay on the machine or bench while looking at their phones for long periods of time — often 10 minutes or more.

— Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
These changes can make functional movements and exercises, like stair climbing, much more challenging.

— Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2026

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