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• The distinctive bill would prove to be useful as the chick grew to scoop up crustaceans and fish.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• That could prove useful for the day when demand for new homes and buildings picks up.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The rovers are expected to prove useful far beyond the moon as well.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• The watch’s under-the-hood specs might prove useful for extended days on set.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2023
• Our list of eBay tips may prove useful, though it's focused on buying on the service.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• What to bring: Sunscreen and a hat will prove useful for hiking in the sunny preserve.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 16 July 2021
• Both of those, and the Zero, can plug in to your household outlet and charge at 1.0 kilowatt or so, which might prove useful.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2023
• That’s where a different type of vaccine, one that works at the places where the virus gets into the body, will likely prove useful.
  — Alice Park, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
• While her golf skills didn't prove useful in the Quantum Realm, Newton jumped at the chance to do as many of her own stunts as possible.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• The Ducks have spread the ball out a lot in the air and that could prove useful against a Cardinal secondary that’s been depleted by injury.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021
• Apps notes a number of areas where these findings could prove useful.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2022
• For a thief looking to rob your home, the general whereabouts of its owners might prove useful.
  — Fox News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Looking to the elders in the family, even those not in your direct lineage can prove useful.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2021
• These movements would prove useful for something like clipping a T-shirt to a clothesline—one of the tasks in the competition.
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
• The rest, although perhaps less successful now, could prove useful in the future.
  — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• But the techniques in Simkin’s paper could prove useful for studying other questions as well.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2021
• And since sleep difficulties were a strong predictor of self-harm across the board, sleep training could prove useful.
  — Sarah Simon, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2024
• Having Sapphire as an investor should prove useful for Huntress, which plans to go public sometime in the future.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• It’s designed to allow U.S. and local troops to share tactics and skills that could prove useful in a fight against a common enemy.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• Large language models may prove useful as aids for writing and coding.
  — Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• Wagner may yet prove useful for that goal, and the dismantling of its forces in the middle of a war would be messy, rife with distractions and dangers for the Kremlin.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• There is another, more direct way the blockchain might prove useful for gaming: payouts.
  — Matthew Smith, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
• Only about 60% of these clothes prove useful; the rest end up in landfills around Accra, Ghana’s capital city and one of the main hubs for secondhand clothing in west Africa.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 13 June 2022
• And the innovation in this space may prove useful in business applications, too.
  — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• With more research, unique urban fingerprints like these could prove useful for forensics, Mason says.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
• But if mast cells and IgE are driving symptoms, at least in some cases, immune therapies targeting them could prove useful.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
• Some of these crafts will prove useful around the home or backyard, including a milk carton bird feeder and personalized photo coasters.
  — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 27 Apr. 2022
• Those are steps can be taken immediately and are likely to prove useful no matter what long-term strategy the county adopts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2021
• The robotic face could also prove useful in research into skin aging, cosmetics, surgical procedures and more, researchers say.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• Although these athletic machines may not be making starting lineups anytime soon, computer scientists hope this ability to learn and perform complex tasks in unpredictable environments will prove useful well beyond the soccer field.
  — Byluke Groskin, science.org, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024