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
Despite cotton’s nearly unlimited usages, this year’s World Cotton Day program will highlight the challenges as well as the opportunities facing the cotton sector.
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Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
For Can-Am and their wide array of powersports, the Defender matches up nicely for many consumers as its extra-flexible usages display great strengths.
—Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Morris has been more multiple in his coverage usages and front structures.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
This has nothing to do with respecting the King’s English or common usages.
—J.t. Barbarese, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
For Can-Am and their wide array of powersports, the Defender matches up nicely for many consumers as its extra-flexible usages display great strengths.
—Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Morris has been more multiple in his coverage usages and front structures.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
This has nothing to do with respecting the King’s English or common usages.
—J.t. Barbarese, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for usages
Noun
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The city had already zoned an area adjacent to Highway 50 for larger, convention-style uses, City Manager Micah Runner said in an interview last month.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Modding support and device modularity should open it up for wider, unimagined uses once end-users get their hands on it, too.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Those employees can continue working on SNAP applications and renewals until that date.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
7 Nov. 2025
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The new season finds the Shazam moving company battling corporate giant Zenithon Logistics, while Everett (Jae) drags the team through increasingly desperate schemes such as insurance scams, bogus grant applications and a basement AirBnb conversion gone wrong.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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One way to provide clarity around the best exercises for perimenopause and menopause is to utilize a cheap fitness tracker that can give you simple, yet useful insight into your body and daily movement habits.—
Jessie Quinn,
Flow Space,
4 Nov. 2025
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Even as conventional treatments for autoimmune diseases have become more effective than ever, alternative treatments, including nutritional supplements, breathing exercises, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, and cold plunges in frigid water, have proliferated.—
Jason Liebowitz,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Usages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/usages. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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