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Recent Examples of use up VO2 max, which tests the maximum amount of oxygen used up during exercise, typically declines with age. Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 1 Oct. 2025 Some of the ‘headroom’ generated by Isak’s sale was already used up in advance on Woltemade and Wissa, though the way incoming and outgoing transfers are booked in the accounts means there is still lots of room for manoeuvre. Chris Waugh, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 In September 2024, Microsoft signed a 20-year agreement to restart a Three Mile Island reactor for 835 megawatts, while in May of this year, Amazon Web Services purchased a data center next to Pennsylvania's Susquehanna nuclear plant with plans to use up to 960 megawatts. Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025 These features prevent runoff–which can carry pollutants–while recharging local groundwater supplies which in many places is being used up faster than it’s being replenished. Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for use up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for use up
Verb
  • With wine pairings, expect to spend around €120 for two people.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fortune’s series, The Good Life, shows how up-and-coming leaders spend their time and money outside of work.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The term broadly refers to working out while consuming only slightly more calories than the body needs to maintain itself, and getting those calories from healthy sources.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • These facilities consume vast amounts of energy, much of it to stay cool, a problem that optical links can help mitigate These facilities consume vast amounts of energy, much of it to stay cool.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So much for draining the swamp.
    Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Maye hit Boutte on a back-shoulder throw in Sunday’s win over the Saints that allowed the Patriots to kneel on the ball, drain the clock and emerge victorious.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most were far from home, overworked and exhausted while receiving no pay in the midst of a prolonged government shutdown.
    Keith Wilson, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • What looked like a shadow at first turned out to be the dog, skittish and exhausted from wandering.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The agency has launched a recruitment drive to relieve the stress by hiring thousands of new officers as quickly as possible, but that process will likely take months or years to play out.
    Ted Hesson, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This will likely play out as a behind-the-scenes debate followed by some procedural hijinks on the Senate floor.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Grant administrators logged in to federal dashboards to draw down funds that had been awarded, only to find money missing.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • An unknown number of patients will lose Medicaid coverage due to new work requirements, and states won’t be able to draw down as much federal funding for hospitals because of limits on provider taxes.
    Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now, many employers are looking to harness the power of AI—initially for mundane and repetitive tasks and eventually for more complicated jobs—to reduce the need to maintain the same level of human staffers on their payrolls.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • And drivers can reduce the risk of their cars being hit.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The team used human stem cells to create three-dimensional, embryo-like structures that replicate early human development, including the formation of blood stem cells.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This watch guide was created using technology provided by Data Skrive.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Use up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/use%20up. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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