How to Use usefulness in a Sentence

usefulness

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  • The Mesopotamians were among the first known to grasp the usefulness of the charge account.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time ERVs have shown their usefulness.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Get feedback from them on the usefulness of the product.
    — Paul Flick, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But the Jesuits have outlived their usefulness to the 77-year-old tyrant.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2023
  • So, there's the feeling there that the whole usefulness of this as a serious tool is very much up in the air.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Nor, in the eyes of officials, have caps on births lost their usefulness.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
  • Part of it has to do with the usefulness of the clock as both a tool of coordination and a tool of control.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
  • In white hat philosophy, usefulness is the name of the game.
    — Timothy Carter, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Here, ranked by usefulness, our guide to its key selling points.
    — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • But the actual usefulness of the long-press gesture is the Quick Actions.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The usefulness of paper here cuts to the real heart of what makes to-do management such a grim problem.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
  • And lastly, usefulness is high if relevance to the job is high.
    — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But there's no strong evidence for its usefulness as a nasal spray or rinse, Hamer said.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • That’s part of their usefulness and their criteria evolve over time.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • There are many maps, usefulness enhanced by their large size.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Much of the study’s usefulness may come in the extreme granularity of the data.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 18 June 2022
  • Even the best medicines and techniques lose their usefulness if too many people get sick at the same time, taxing staffing and supplies.
    — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • No car updates with the speed, frequency or usefulness of a phone.
    — John Hayes, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.
    — Joshua Becker, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • This design also expands the usefulness of the hand while it’s attached to a robot arm.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2024
  • While the Renegade has real off-road chops, its daily usefulness takes a few hits.
    — Ryan Zummallen, Star Tribune, 7 July 2021
  • Shoppers love the quality and usefulness of the cast iron griddle.
    — Malia Griggs, SELF, 15 July 2022
  • There would be a usefulness for having the students involved.
    — al, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Batchelder said the staff looked at every software being used, and assessed its value in terms of usefulness in the next school year.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But the usefulness of drones is not lost on Los Angeles County Fire.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 9 July 2022
  • But when the war ended, its usefulness as a base waned, and the airport fell into disrepair.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • Each swipe of the mop proves its usefulness, a glistening arc on a floor that a second ago looked O.K. but now is revealed to have been dusty and dull all along.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The usefulness of these formerly fun discourse pictures is on the wane.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Benioff says that the company oversold the usefulness of its enterprise AI products.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Hovde has derided clean energy initiatives in the past, and energy experts critiqued the usefulness of his overall point here.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024

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