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verb

present tense third-person singular of reuse
as in uses
to put (something) to use again I can reuse that empty container for another purpose.

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noun

plural of reuse
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Recent Examples of reuses
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And Blue Origin reuses a booster but runs into orbit issues. — Sara Marley, Bloomberg, 19 Apr. 2026 Glass bottles of water (the resort has its own filtration plant) replace single-use plastic, and the property reuses most of its runoff water for the gardens. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026 When the account holder reuses a password across accounts, hackers can test that breach data directly against the recordkeeper's login portal. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026 To conserve water, Terry built a system that captures groundwater on-site and reuses it for irrigation, creating a dry-creek-style basin that collects runoff. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026 That’s an awfully bold move from Motorola, considering the foldable is powered by the same chip as the 2024 and 2025 models and also reuses the design and screens from previous generations. — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026 The song was paired with a lyric video that reuses two-decade-old footage shot by collaborator Cliff Watts, who also photographed Beyoncé’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover. — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2026 Because these capabilities are built on common data and integration layers, each additional use case reuses existing components, lowering incremental cost and time‑to‑value and creating a compounding advantage. — Leon Gordon, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026 The team of researchers at the MEET Battery Research Center and the Institute of Business Chemistry at the University of Münster, designed a process that directly reuses materials without degrading them. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reuses
  1. uses
  2. applications
  3. utilizes
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  • Summer uses a family trip to a Caribbean resort to cause chaos and sabotage the relationship.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Unlike conventional ion traps that rely on oscillating radio-frequency fields, the Penning trap uses static electric and magnetic fields.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
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  • Banks discovered that lounge access drove credit card applications.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • The open-ear design also allows wearers to remain aware of their surroundings, offering potential benefits for both immersive entertainment and real-world safety applications.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
Definition of applications
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  • The underlying design utilizes a High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor framework that Valar Atomics refers to as its Numenor architecture.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
  • His company has developed a noninvasive technology system, called Edison, which utilizes histotripsy—sound waves that destroy tumors from the inside—to treat cancer and other conditions.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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