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
These things are often years out from their true usefulness.
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Brady Dale, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Within a few years, the ISS will outlive its usefulness, and once it is abandoned there will be nothing to keep it at the proper altitude.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
It’s designed for researchers, students, and academics, but its usefulness extends far beyond the academic world.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
While artificial intelligence has dominated headlines for much of the year, Deloitte chief technology officer Bill Briggs expects some of the hype to die down — even as its usefulness increases.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2024
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Brady Dale, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Within a few years, the ISS will outlive its usefulness, and once it is abandoned there will be nothing to keep it at the proper altitude.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
It’s designed for researchers, students, and academics, but its usefulness extends far beyond the academic world.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
While artificial intelligence has dominated headlines for much of the year, Deloitte chief technology officer Bill Briggs expects some of the hype to die down — even as its usefulness increases.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for usefulness
Noun
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Trump plans to invoke a national emergency at the border as a way to unlock funding from the Defense Department for the administration’s use, according to Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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Expert instructors will teach you how to get started, practical uses, tips for effective prompt-writing and mistakes to avoid.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The surviving members even took a crack at properly recording and mixing it in 1995, to little avail.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Both the Trump and Biden administrations have made efforts to reach out to China for nuclear talks, but to little avail.—
Joshua Keating,
Vox,
15 Jan. 2025
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Jefferson County budget impasse threatens services The Jefferson County coroner has taken the precautionary measure of relocating bodies from his office to area funeral homes because of the Quorum Court's inability to pass a budget and pay the county's utility bills.—
Eplunus Colvin,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Los Angeles County Fire Department, which is the lead agency investigating the origin and case of the Eaton fire, has identified the preliminary origin area and asked the utility company to preserve in place its transmission facilities near the site.—
Reuters,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Usefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/usefulness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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