usage
noun
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice.
usages
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pluralof usage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Token usages are how developers measure and pay for AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
What are some unique butter techniques or usages that some may not be familiar with?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
The Northern Quarter is a "lively, vibrant" area, but as "Manchester is evolving", its "usages are changing", which means the area can now be considered mixed use, the judge said.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Other similarly off-putting usages prompted think tanks and op-ed writers to warn that deepfakes were on the cusp of sparking a war or manipulating an election.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
Neither the nominalist nor the mathematical usages are particularly common, and we cannot show any direct influence from either of them on seventeenth-century usages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
