utilization

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Recent Examples of utilization Stadium Club sets are known for their utilization of exceptional photographs, and Joan Monfort’s work from 2007, intended for a charity calendar produced by FC Barcelona, UNICEF and newspaper Diario Sport, certainly fits that category. Brooks Peck, New York Times, 21 July 2026 The upside is durability — a single dose of DT120 held up for twelve weeks, and COMP360 showed benefit out to six months — which changes the reimbursement math by reducing chronic daily-pill utilization in favor of periodic in-clinic sessions. Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Ukraine’s creative utilization of drones has ignited a surging fuel crisis across the Russian Federation that has brought the war front and center to the Russian people for the first time. Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026 Even prior to these challenges, most states in the South had not expanded Medicaid, a key factor as to why the region also has traditionally had disproportionate new HIV cases and poor PrEP utilization. Michael Chancley, USA Today, 17 July 2026 That plan calls for most school campuses to have a utilization rate of 80%. Austin Horn july 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 Analysts pointed to improving results for Medicare Advantage and other care companies as healthcare utilization continued to moderate through the first half of 2026. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 July 2026 Its staff then goes over the data on health care costs and utilization to determine what rates will allow the companies’ insurance plans to remain stable without overcharging. Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 13 July 2026 Additionally, utilization tends to increase with larger crews on the space station compared with smaller ones, as maintenance becomes less of a burden with more hands to take on these tasks. Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 9 July 2026
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Noun
  • Mayo Clinic is now running a clinical trial to test whether AI can help identify patients at risk of or with early-stage pancreatic cancer — an application the hospital has said could detect the disease years earlier than the typical diagnosis.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • In one instance, there was a 488% increase in applications for test drives on the day of the stream, Moutran told Semafor.
    Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • The new law also now requires any presumptive large-scale data center to receive a public hearing from its local water management district before the district can issue a water use permit.
    Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • 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, 16 July 2026

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“Utilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utilization. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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