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• The distinctive bill would prove to be useful as the chick grew to scoop up crustaceans and fish.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• That could prove useful for the day when demand for new homes and buildings picks up.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The rovers are expected to prove useful far beyond the moon as well.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• The watch’s under-the-hood specs might prove useful for extended days on set.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2023
• Our list of eBay tips may prove useful, though it's focused on buying on the service.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• What to bring: Sunscreen and a hat will prove useful for hiking in the sunny preserve.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 16 July 2021
• Both of those, and the Zero, can plug in to your household outlet and charge at 1.0 kilowatt or so, which might prove useful.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2023
• That’s where a different type of vaccine, one that works at the places where the virus gets into the body, will likely prove useful.
  — Alice Park, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
• While her golf skills didn't prove useful in the Quantum Realm, Newton jumped at the chance to do as many of her own stunts as possible.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• The Ducks have spread the ball out a lot in the air and that could prove useful against a Cardinal secondary that’s been depleted by injury.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021
• Apps notes a number of areas where these findings could prove useful.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2022
• For a thief looking to rob your home, the general whereabouts of its owners might prove useful.
  — Fox News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Looking to the elders in the family, even those not in your direct lineage can prove useful.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2021
• These movements would prove useful for something like clipping a T-shirt to a clothesline—one of the tasks in the competition.
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
• The rest, although perhaps less successful now, could prove useful in the future.
  — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• But the techniques in Simkin’s paper could prove useful for studying other questions as well.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2021
• And since sleep difficulties were a strong predictor of self-harm across the board, sleep training could prove useful.
  — Sarah Simon, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2024
• Having Sapphire as an investor should prove useful for Huntress, which plans to go public sometime in the future.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• It’s designed to allow U.S. and local troops to share tactics and skills that could prove useful in a fight against a common enemy.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• Large language models may prove useful as aids for writing and coding.
  — Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• Wagner may yet prove useful for that goal, and the dismantling of its forces in the middle of a war would be messy, rife with distractions and dangers for the Kremlin.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• There is another, more direct way the blockchain might prove useful for gaming: payouts.
  — Matthew Smith, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
• Only about 60% of these clothes prove useful; the rest end up in landfills around Accra, Ghana’s capital city and one of the main hubs for secondhand clothing in west Africa.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 13 June 2022
• And the innovation in this space may prove useful in business applications, too.
  — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• With more research, unique urban fingerprints like these could prove useful for forensics, Mason says.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
• But if mast cells and IgE are driving symptoms, at least in some cases, immune therapies targeting them could prove useful.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
• Some of these crafts will prove useful around the home or backyard, including a milk carton bird feeder and personalized photo coasters.
  — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 27 Apr. 2022
• Those are steps can be taken immediately and are likely to prove useful no matter what long-term strategy the county adopts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2021
• This paper may be about the seismological benefits of fin whales, but this method may prove useful to marine ecologists, Dr. Wilcock said.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
• Such a structure might also prove useful in coordinating the export controls the United States wants erected against China.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024