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Bobby Miller will start for the Dodgers on Wednesday, his first big league appearance since September, when he was so ineffective he was deemed unusable during the postseason.

Turning off a blast furnace without making it permanently unusable is notoriously difficult.

Because the kitchen is unusable, Blanca has to wash her dishes in the bathtub, and she has improvised a cooking area with a gas camping stove in a corner of her living room.

Climate concerns will become so acute that much of the oil and gas they're searching for will have to remain in the ground and become unusable "stranded assets" of no commercial value.

Over time, poor infrastructure, including old pipes leaking in the mechanical room above, escalated to a point where the clinic had multiple safety hazards and became unusable.