as in use
the capacity for being useful for some purpose
although I appreciate the concern, your help would be of little avail in this situation
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as in to benefit
to provide with something useful or desirable
all your begging will not avail you in the least
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Recent Examples of avail
Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Readers may be surprised by a scene in which a young Michaels, himself a comedian, pitches jokes to Woody Allen, to little avail.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
And then other things avail themselves and the cast comes together.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Yates took his anger out on a chair, smacking the bench, the redshirt freshman guard dropping 18 points and three threes to little avail.
—Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Readers may be surprised by a scene in which a young Michaels, himself a comedian, pitches jokes to Woody Allen, to little avail.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Verb
Students running late may avail themselves of a police-motorcycle escort.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
And then other things avail themselves and the cast comes together.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avail
Noun
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Despite prior use of violence by Hamas to crack down on demonstrations, the Hamas authorities in Gaza, so far, have not used similar violence to crack down on the current demonstrations.—
Khalil Shikaki,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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Decrypt reported that GameStop completed a $1.5 billion sale of convertible senior notes, with about $1.48 billion in net proceeds available for corporate use.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
Verb
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While Chris' construction of a xenon-halogen laser to solve the power problem was purely theoretical at the time, the underlying scientific details were later outlined in a scientific paper—a fitting example of how science and Hollywood can both benefit from such collaborations.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Apr. 2025
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All of these would benefit from being procured at the group level for both economies of scale and also due diligence in terms of service level agreements and impact evaluation.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Studies need a bare-minimum number of data points, and if the target number of participants fails to complete a trial, researchers might not be able to calculate anything about the interventions’ usefulness or safety.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
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But questions about the efficacy and usefulness of its consumer products have followed it almost from the start.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Avail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avail. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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