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Example sentences for: used

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I quickly put out an open letter to Mahathir warning that the controls should not be abused, used as a cover for ; but I know from friends in Washington that people started referring to the "Krugman-Mahathir strategy" of recovery via capital controls.
For example, although computer specialists properly coined byte to represent a new concept, they could have used the everyday expression turn off instead of inventing a new meaning for take down . In contrast, in virtually all the cases I read the judge who wrote the opinion did not have to invent a new meaning for a word or phrase; the relevant statute yielded a clear meaning that would have resolved the case.
Chavis was ousted after revelations that he used NAACP funds to settle sexual-harassment suits filed against him by former employees.
For all experiments, 1 μM flavopiridol was used (except the titration experiment in Figure 1a).
Coomassie blue staining was used to verify equal loading of gel.