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English word

use

A2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /juːs/US /juːs/
noun

the act of using something; the state of being used

verb

to do something with a machine, a method, an object, etc. for a particular purpose

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But where most people used their calculators for higher mathematics, I used mine to program video games.

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