usefulness
noun
use·ful·ness
ˈyüs-fəl-nəs 
: the quality of having utility and especially practical worth or applicability
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Rai Mincey, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Russell Vought, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, downplayed his past comments about the usefulness of shutting down the federal government to achieve conservative policy aims.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025
This end-to-end approach both prevents fraudulent traffic and restores the usefulness of customer analytics and acquisition strategies.
—Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
The authors’ research shows that emphasizing this simple fact — the essential role of humans in AI tools — can boost perceptions of AI’s usefulness and reduce resistance to adoption.
—Oguz A. Acar,
anne-Kathrin Klesse,
mirjam A. Tuk, Harvard Business Review, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Usefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usefulness. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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