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the capacity for being useful for some purpose
the well-known usefulness of thick phone books as seat boosters for short diners
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Recent Examples of usefulness
The usefulness of the one-on-one meeting has become a topic for debate.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
The Blue Trail asserts that productivity is the antithesis of human fulfillment, offering an alternative of sorts to the empty promises of capitalism and Soviet-style communism with its insistence that our wellbeing isn’t tied up with notions of usefulness.
—Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
Michaels also realized the usefulness, in show business, of cultivating your own legend.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
As customers grow more accustomed to a constant drumbeat of extraordinary claims of potency, exclusivity and medicinal usefulness — coupled to a significant expectancy bias — the road ahead for the cannabis and hemp industry(ies) meets with a few immediate challenges.
—Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
The Blue Trail asserts that productivity is the antithesis of human fulfillment, offering an alternative of sorts to the empty promises of capitalism and Soviet-style communism with its insistence that our wellbeing isn’t tied up with notions of usefulness.
—Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
Michaels also realized the usefulness, in show business, of cultivating your own legend.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
As customers grow more accustomed to a constant drumbeat of extraordinary claims of potency, exclusivity and medicinal usefulness — coupled to a significant expectancy bias — the road ahead for the cannabis and hemp industry(ies) meets with a few immediate challenges.
—Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for usefulness
Noun
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And Crystal Care Tips Experts across the board agree that regular use is the best way to keep delicate pieces clean and in the best condition.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacramento Bee,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Teams traded pressure through most of the first half to almost no avail, each producing just two shots on goal as defenses kept dangers to the outside.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2024
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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
Noun
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But the filing from the utility company has prompted additional scrutiny into its equipment and how that equipment operated when the fire began.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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In 2022, the utility wrote a bill that would have discouraged solar investment.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Usefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/usefulness. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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