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247 examples of Usage in a sentence

Now, Ms. Counts and all of her librarian colleagues have really been at the forefront of comics advocacy, really since the early '80s, when a school library journal article stated that the mere presence of graphic novels in the library increased usage by about 80 percent and increased the circulation of noncomics material by about 30 percent.
If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one paper towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used.
You can see the deadlines and the usage graph.
But what keeps me up at night is that our energy use for cooling might grow sixfold by the year 2050, primarily driven by increasing usage in Asian and African countries.
In the future, we might be able to integrate these kinds of panels with higher efficiency building cooling systems to reduce their energy usage by two-thirds.
The first is that this product works well because we were effectively able to combine rigorous engineering science and analysis with user-centered design focused on the social and usage and economic factors important to wheelchair users in the developing countries.
He is splendidly attired in his 68,000-dollar uniform, befitting the role of the French Academy as legislating the correct usage in French and perpetuating the language.
They also legislate on correct usage, such as the proper term for what the French call "email," which ought to be "courriel."
So as a result, the energy usage is very low, and it has the most advanced battery pack, and that's what gives it the range that's competitive, so you can actually have on the order of a 250-mile range.
That's half our coal usage right there.
And daily usage just continues to soar.
Going back to the beginning of the usage of the term robot, the play "RUR," there was always a concept that if we developed machine intelligence, there would be a cybernetic revolt.
Anyway, it looks totally crazy, but I was actually thinking about our campus, working with the Zippies and stuff, and just trying to get a lot more bike usage, and I was thinking about, how do you cost-effectively separate the bikes from traffic?
Parent, as a verb, only entered common usage in 1970.
They try to provide us some guidance about words that are considered slang or informal or offensive, often through usage labels, but they're in something of a bind, because they're trying to describe what we do, and they know that we often go to dictionaries to get information about how we should use a word well or appropriately.
In response, the American Heritage Dictionaries include usage notes.
Usage notes tend to occur with words that are troublesome in one way, and one of the ways that they can be troublesome is that they're changing meaning.
Now usage notes involve very human decisions, and I think, as dictionary users, we're often not as aware of those human decisions as we should be.
To show you what I mean, we'll look at an example, but before we do, I want to explain what the dictionary editors are trying to deal with in this usage note.
And then they include a usage note, which is worth looking at.
So here's the usage note: "Peruse has long meant 'to read thoroughly'...
When asked about the sentence, 'I only had a moment to peruse the manual quickly,' 66 percent of the [Usage] Panel found it unacceptable in 1988, 58 percent in 1999, and 48 percent in 2011."
Ah, the Usage Panel, that trusted body of language authorities who is getting more lenient about this.
Now, what I hope you're thinking right now is, "Wait, who's on the Usage Panel?
If you look in the front matter of American Heritage Dictionaries, you can actually find the names of the people on the Usage Panel.
There are about 200 people on the Usage Panel.
We can give you a sense of the range of opinions about contested usage.
I will be honest with you: I do not like the word "impactful," but that is neither here nor there in terms of whether "impactful" is becoming common usage and becoming more acceptable in written prose.
So to be responsible, what I do is go look at usage, which often involves going to look at online databases such as Google Books.
Because I'm going to say, that is going to be the tool that's going to turn our usage overnight.
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