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make use of

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  1. Utilize, use, as in I hope readers will make use of this dictionary. This expression dates from the late 1500s. Shakespeare had it in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2:4).


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Some firms, tech businesses among them, are finding new ways to make use of existing characters.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Underemployment among recent grads—which measures people holding jobs that don’t make use of their skills or degrees or don’t offer full employment—also edged down consistently over the past four months to 41.5% in March.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

“But I do know that it had changed things, and we could make use of that.”

From Slate • May 1, 2026

Most people make use of about two choices, with 58% investing in a single target-date fund.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

But his plan to make use of the gull excited everyone and was seen as something that not even Blackberry could have hit upon.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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