as in use
the capacity for being useful for some purpose
the well-known usefulness of thick phone books as seat boosters for short diners
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Recent Examples of usefulness
Doing so only served to remind this writer that the insistence on its implementation is not a product of its usefulness, but our usefulness to it.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
Hardly wide enough to stand on, sometimes as thin as a phone case, teensy balconies have been striping the façades of new, multifamily buildings across Brooklyn and Queens at a rate inversely proportional to their usefulness.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Feb. 2025
Every business of every size needs to analyze and assess the validity and usefulness of its processes at least every two years.
—Brenda Abdilla, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Labor—the activity of turning nonhuman nature into human usefulness—lies at the heart of all societies.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
Hardly wide enough to stand on, sometimes as thin as a phone case, teensy balconies have been striping the façades of new, multifamily buildings across Brooklyn and Queens at a rate inversely proportional to their usefulness.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Feb. 2025
Every business of every size needs to analyze and assess the validity and usefulness of its processes at least every two years.
—Brenda Abdilla, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Labor—the activity of turning nonhuman nature into human usefulness—lies at the heart of all societies.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for usefulness
Noun
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Which is where the use of passphrases enters the equation.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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While the Army and Navy hope to soon deploy the first US hypersonic missile for use in combat, the military continues pursuing more advanced hypersonic technology.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Dahl suggested avenues for investigation, to little avail.—
Ronan Farrow,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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To little avail, as Tesla stock dropped and mobs have set fire to cars in dealer lots.—
Paul Bedard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
22 Mar. 2025
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Questions were directed at Abel this time about topics ranging from Berkshire’s capital allocation strategy and what its energy and utilities businesses are doing to mitigate climate change to what lessons he’s learned from Buffett.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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The product is in use at pilot sites nationwide, though a lack of standardized rules for plug-in solar has forced the company to negotiate interconnection agreements with local utilities—a time-consuming and sometimes costly process.—
Akielly Hu,
Wired News,
3 May 2025
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“Usefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/usefulness. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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