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Utility in sentence

228 examples of Utility in a sentence

Put simply, the utility something has to you is reflected by how much you'd be willing to pay for it.
This is because of something called marginal utility, and it means that when you choose between diamonds and water, you compare utility obtained from every additional bottle of water to every additional diamond.
This is the law of diminishing marginal utility.
Either way, you'd eventually reach a point where the marginal utility for buying another movie ticket became zero.
Utility applies not just to buying things, but to all our decisions.
Of course, how effectively any of us manage to maximize utility in real life is another matter.
And it's more than just utility, now it's a communication.
Will we all become slaves to algorithms and utility functions?
It's like a new commodity; it's a new utility.
So that's the third thing, is that they're different, they're utility and they are going to be something we work with rather than against.
Should we do it for profit, for utility?
And this is not the highest utility subway in the world.
Self-interest isn't a narrowly defined concept just for your immediate utility.
That's just cars and utility costs.
But certainly I see your point: that there can be some utility to buying a lottery ticket other than winning.
These subjects were not studied merely for the sake of curiosity or practical utility, but because they authenticated the belief that numbers were the sacred language of the universe.
But just ask yourselves, is it plausible that every single time for your entire life, when you did something nice for somebody else, all you were doing was maximizing your own utility?
It's a utility in a place where there are fewer better options to solve a problem.
We really needed to do some archeology in the trailer itself to figure out what's authentic in an Airstream trailer, and what feels like it has true purpose and utility.
This is a utility room for a woman who is on a walker.
By the way, I'm teaching you how to use our website, Gapminder World, while I'm correcting this, because this is a free utility on the net.
They've created a consumer collective where they put solar panels on households and create a consumer-based utility, where the electricity they generate is basically pumped back out into the marketplace.
I call this the Sport Utility Principle.
Batman, fighting against the bad guys, he has his utility belt, he has his grappling hook, he has all different kinds of gadgets.
These dynamics are what makes it easy to dismiss protests as riots or to assume they are of limited political utility.
As to the 'anti empathy virus virus'-Holy Utility Belt, Batman!
Most people work hard all day to pay for living quarters less than half the size yet on these shows nobody is going or coming from work, paying utility,rent, mortgage or insurance bills, mopping, sweeping, changing lightbulbs, fixing toilets,etc.
She meets a utility worker and Skeletor attacks again.
Luckily, like any good utility worker, he's got a gun and shoots at the guy.
Paul Gleason of course has gone on to be a fine utility player in all facets of entertainment and Bill Lucking is a television perennial.
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