usages

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Examples

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. Edward Sapir

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. Albert Bushnell Hart

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend. Plutarch

Eek for to winne love in sondry ages, In sondry londes, sondry ben usages. Geoffrey Chaucer

How far can we anticipate the habitations and ways, the usages and adventures, the mighty employments, the ever increasing knowledge and power of the days to come? No more than a child with its scribbling paper and its box of bricks can picture or model the undertakings of its adult years. H. G. Wells

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. Steven Pinker