REUSING Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

reusing

verb

present participle of reuse

as in using

to put (something) to use again I can reuse that empty container for another purpose.

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Recent Examples of reusing Some facilities are also experimenting with reusing water across multiple cooling cycles, reducing the need to add fresh water during each cycle. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 According to Eni, reusing the existing infrastructure will reduce the need for new construction. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026 Interim County Executive Phil LeVota unveiled a roadmap for reusing the county’s 400-acre sports complex. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026 The couple are strong on sustainability, harnessing solar power, reusing grey water for the gardens, and lending bicycles for guests to get around on. — Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026 Barrett, her partner and his two teenage sons have been eating on paper plates to avoid doing dishes and reusing cooking water to give to their dog. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Among the possibilities for the site were reusing the existing structure, turning the area into an open space for community events or constructing commercial or residential developments. — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026 There's no retrieval system for reusing institutional knowledge rather than re-deriving it. — Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 People get lazy, reusing passwords or pseudonyms or crypto wallets. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

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Their role becomes clear at 21-, 36- and 52-Across, where the clues solve to partial entries, which can be completed only by using the entry spaces of those dash clues.

— Sam Corbin, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2026
In a small farm context, that will be to a grouping of farmers that form a producer unit using the same practices in the same climate.

— SJ Studio, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

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The second allows the devil to slide into his DMs, utilizing a seduce-and-destroy approach that will eventually lead to Sutskever becoming OpenAI’s resident Chicken Little and the tech industry’s conscientious objector.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
His third model, more formally speaking, released just months after the Air Penny 3 while also utilizing Foamposite technology for its upper.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

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