usefulness
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Definition of usefulness
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Synonyms & Antonyms for usefulness
Synonyms
account, avail, mileage, service, serviceability, serviceableness, use, utility
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Examples of usefulness in a Sentence
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To prove its usefulness to consumers, Apple is offering them more and more services. — Reed Albergotti, oregonlive, "How Apple uses its App Store to copy the best ideas," 6 Sep. 2019 To prove its usefulness to consumers, Apple is offering them more and more services. — Reed Albergotti, Anchorage Daily News, "How Apple uses its App Store to copy the best ideas of others," 5 Sep. 2019 At the same time, there is mounting skepticism about the usefulness of the college experience. — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, "Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family," 2 Sep. 2019 On the other, football money is fleeting, and such avenues of loyalty in these cases are often proven to be one-way streets, when a player’s usefulness to a team expires. — Albert Breer, SI.com, "32 Notes From 32 NFL Training Camps," 22 Aug. 2019 Much has been made about Revel’s usefulness in navigating within and between Brooklyn and Queens, as the city’s subways, for the most part, are focused on ferrying riders to Manhattan and back—and that’s certainly true. — Corey Seymour, Vogue, "Stop Whining About Revel Scooters And Just Say Yes," 16 Aug. 2019 As Warzel points out, Twitter amplified those conspiracies via its trending algorithm, which has long since outlived its usefulness. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "It’s time to end “trending” on Twitter," 13 Aug. 2019 In certain jobs, particularly in the caring professions, people’s devout belief in the social usefulness of their role persuades them to put up with long hours and low pay. — The Economist, "The absurd language used by job adverts," 11 July 2019 Aristocratic in his bearing, a former colonel in the Horse Guards, an avid proponent of modernism, Teliakovsky was convinced that Petipa had long outlived his usefulness. — John Check, WSJ, "‘Marius Petipa’ Review: The Imperial Ballet Master," 28 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'usefulness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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