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simple past and past participle of use quotations examples
In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
(intransitive, auxiliary, defective, only in past tense/participle) To perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]. examples
comparative more used, superlative most used
That is or has or have been used. quotations examples
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
That has or have previously been owned by someone else. examples
Familiar through use; usual; accustomed. quotations examples
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone