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Recent Examples of utilization
Flying is the company’s second Nova-C lander named Athena featuring NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, to land a drill and mass spectrometer near the south pole of the moon in order to demonstrate the feasibility of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and measure the volatile content of subsurface samples.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Geothermal plants operate at capacity utilization rates above 80%, requiring minimal land, and increasingly rely on machine learning for predictive maintenance and reservoir optimization.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
One of the largest factors of your credit score is your credit utilization rate.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
The budget, not the utilization rate, should be the district’s central metric, Opdycke argued, because schools often have more flexible uses for classrooms than reflected in the utilization rate.
—Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
That could ding your score by shortening your average account age or affecting your credit utilization.
—Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2026
As businesses get serious about managing returns more efficiently, tracking asset utilization, measuring environmental impact and facilitating component recovery, platforms and solutions to support these processes will become increasingly popular.
—Eric Lefebvre, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
Pattern utilization can be the key to turning insight into income.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
What matters most is your utilization when your statement closes each month, which is typically what gets reported to the credit bureaus.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
Geothermal plants operate at capacity utilization rates above 80%, requiring minimal land, and increasingly rely on machine learning for predictive maintenance and reservoir optimization.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
One of the largest factors of your credit score is your credit utilization rate.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
The budget, not the utilization rate, should be the district’s central metric, Opdycke argued, because schools often have more flexible uses for classrooms than reflected in the utilization rate.
—Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
That could ding your score by shortening your average account age or affecting your credit utilization.
—Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2026
As businesses get serious about managing returns more efficiently, tracking asset utilization, measuring environmental impact and facilitating component recovery, platforms and solutions to support these processes will become increasingly popular.
—Eric Lefebvre, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
Pattern utilization can be the key to turning insight into income.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
What matters most is your utilization when your statement closes each month, which is typically what gets reported to the credit bureaus.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for utilization
Noun
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Advanced chips The company’s high-performance computing division, which includes artificial intelligence and 5G applications, made up the majority of sales in the October-December quarter at 55%.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2026
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The use of generative AI to automatically fill out (and, in some cases, even submit) applications is harmful to everyone; employers are unable to filter through the noise, and legitimate candidates have a harder time getting noticed—much less advancing to an interview.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The company also highlighted its shift toward a Robot-as-a-Service model, indicating readiness for global commercial deployment rather than experimental use.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Utilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utilization. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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