- past progressive of use.
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Of the non-AI users aged 55 and older, 37% said they were worried about losing their jobs compared to 27% of people who were using AI.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Some included it in performance reviews and even put up leaderboards to show which worker bees were using the most tokens, the basic units of AI consumption.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Those winds generated electrical currents that altered the auroral signal scientists were using to estimate the planet's rotation.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
If Ofsted had visited Genevieve's nursery before she died and checked the CCTV, John believes inspectors would have picked up on the unsafe sleep practices they were using.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
By about 300,000 years ago, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and the forefathers of Homo sapiens were using fire on a daily basis.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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