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useful

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adjective

being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect:
a useful member of society.
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of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs:
the useful arts; useful work.
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useful

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able to be used advantageously, beneficially, or for several purposes; helpful or serviceable
informal.
commendable or capable
a useful term's work

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Origin of useful¹

First recorded in 1585–95; use + -ful

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He insisted that the negotiations with Witkoff had been "constructive and very useful".

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It's useful agitprop for MAGA, which desperately needs a distraction from Trump's failures and falling approval ratings.

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He pledged to stay on "as long as the president would like me to do so and as long as it's useful".

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"I think it would be particularly useful for people with social anxiety."

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"I don't necessarily want to say AI is bad when I know that it could be a useful tool," he said.

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