as in to spend
to make complete use of
we used up the last of the flour when we made the waffles
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Recent Examples of use up
Between toiletries, clothes, shoes, and electronics, bag space can be used up quickly.
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Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
For those with a sweet tooth, a festive holiday jam with four types of berries will take your breakfasts up a notch and is a great way to use up extra bags of frozen cranberries left over from Thanksgiving.
—Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Palmer then drove his team 99 yards on 15 plays, using up nearly nine minutes.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
Spencer, who is 29 and clearly NBA-ready, has already used up 24 of those games, having played in 15 of them.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
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Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
For those with a sweet tooth, a festive holiday jam with four types of berries will take your breakfasts up a notch and is a great way to use up extra bags of frozen cranberries left over from Thanksgiving.
—Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Palmer then drove his team 99 yards on 15 plays, using up nearly nine minutes.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
Spencer, who is 29 and clearly NBA-ready, has already used up 24 of those games, having played in 15 of them.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for use up
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Joabe Barbosa, Matthew Plese and Omar Yousaf spent the day riding the entire MARTA rail system in an attempt to complete the full route in roughly three hours.—
Kaley Fedko,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Visitors can spend their entire trip switching off between the two, but be sure to take some time to explore the rocky cove beaches called calas that have made Costa Blanca famous.—
Liz Provencher,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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Not all data centers are water cooled but those that are can consume as much as 5 million gallons a day, the same as a town with a population of 25,000 people.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
25 Jan. 2026
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These wines were shipped to other continents and consumed in royal courts.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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If the water is shut off, pipes should be fully drained by flushing toilets and running faucets.—
Sergio Candido,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The drain stack is the main vertical pipe, and water should reach it quickly and drain downward.—
Kamron Sanders,
The Spruce,
22 Jan. 2026
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Gentry had both of those things, but he is headed to the NFL after exhausting his eligibility.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
22 Jan. 2026
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With costs accelerating and incremental fixes exhausted, healthcare is approaching a breaking point.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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But Wood said there is not much to stop agents from rearresting an individual with a final deportation order after that process plays out.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Jan. 2026
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Depending on how the lottery plays out this year, could history repeat itself in Milwaukee?—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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These approaches can help identify fields where farmers can use less phosphorus or pause it altogether, allowing crops to draw down the legacy phosphorus already present.—
Dinesh Phuyal,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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Those two factors caused the program to start drawing down its reserves around 2009, much sooner than had been projected in 2021 and 2022, according to Nuñez.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
23 Jan. 2026
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This comes at a time when there has been talk of reducing the number of PGA tournaments on the calendar.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The cross-border clearing platform could streamline operations, reducing risks in OTC trades that dominate the market.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Declined to apply for a state grant of up to $400,000 to test the use of the drug buprenorphine to combat opioid use disorder.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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Likely hundreds of millions of devices, even when using more balanced market share metrics.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Use up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/use%20up. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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