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usable

[yoo-zuh-buhl] / ˈju zə bəl /


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Mitochondria are the tiny structures inside cells that help turn food into usable energy.

From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026

It is a far more usable weapon, and much cheaper, than the network of allies and proxies it spent decades and billions building in the Middle East.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

But the benefits of merely maximizing AI usage have been unclear, with instances such as Uber burning through their entire 2026 AI budget in four months, without shipping a usable feature.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

However, when electricity is priced below 20 cents a kilowatt-hour, the systems might not make up their cost in energy savings during their usable lives, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

For ten hours a day, six days a week, they disassemble massive forging presses and stack the usable metal in crates to be loaded onto train cars.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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