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 notes — which detail pronunciation and vowel usages — reinforced the veracity of the most accurate of the key manuscripts, the Aleppo Codex, he said.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
But anyone who read that understood what Dean was saying—he wasn’t arguing, the Times was not arguing, that in our actual journalism we will prohibit that word under all cases and usages.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2021
The ambiguous usages of Noah Biggs and Alexander Ross, discussed earlier, also follow the publication of Hobbes’s Humane Nature.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
