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  • adverb In a usable manner.

Etymologies

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usable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • There's a term used in Maine for when the ice is gone and the lake is usably liquid again.

    Pat LaMarche: The Hearts of Obama and Congress: Colder Than Winter in Maine Pat LaMarche 2011

  • There's a term used in Maine for when the ice is gone and the lake is usably liquid again.

    Pat LaMarche: The Hearts of Obama and Congress: Colder Than Winter in Maine Pat LaMarche 2011

  • There's a term used in Maine for when the ice is gone and the lake is usably liquid again.

    Pat LaMarche: The Hearts of Obama and Congress: Colder Than Winter in Maine Pat LaMarche 2011

  • The mechanism exists, sure, but I've never seen it function usably.

    Archive 2008-03-01 SVGL 2008

  • From the beginning, IA has grappled with one of the most important challenges designers now face: how to define and link contexts usefully, usably and ethically in a digital hyper-linked world.

    inkblurt · Running for the Board & the future of the IAI 2008

  • There's no opportunity to use Lojban other than on the internet; for a constructed language with a usably-large vocabulary and signifigant number of speakers, that gives it a unique place on the impracticality spectrum of languages.

    Zlango! - Mind Your Language glyn moody 2007

  • And that was an interesting fact that she disclosed, that they did try to do the surreptitious DNA test and they did not get a sample that they could usably or reliably test against the evidence in the murder scene.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006 2006

  • It's not as if you're actually coming up with a new and simple scale that would usably cover weight, length, temperature, and speed indifferently.

    Notes for Noting and Links for Thinking 2006

  • Unless placed near the cooking and food preparation area, where they grow dirtiest most quickly, there is no point in hanging them out instead of storing them in cabinets, where they will stay usably clean much longer.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Unless placed near the cooking and food preparation area, where they grow dirtiest most quickly, there is no point in hanging them out instead of storing them in cabinets, where they will stay usably clean much longer.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

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