avail
verb (used with object)
to be of use or value to; profit; advantage.
are availing
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present progressiveof avail.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For now, companies are availing themselves of the latest spike in crude prices to lock in a price for their output, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
"Our members are availing of the welfare services, talking to each other, reaching out and there is a very strong sense of looking out for each other that is carrying people."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2022
By choosing that option, you are availing yourself to that population.
From Slate ● May 12, 2020
"Now that you have an ever-growing raft of alternatives, more and more traditional customers are availing themselves of those alternatives."
From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2013
Within a few years, however, some colleges have been instituted where young women are admitted upon nearly equal terms with young men; and numbers are availing themselves of their long denied rights.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
