useful life
noun
: the amount of time during which something is in good enough condition to be used
the useful life of a satellite
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Under the bill, an insurer would not be able to refuse to renew a homeowner’s insurance policy solely because of the age of the roof if, during an inspection, said roof was determined to have five years or more of useful life remaining.
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025
At the end of its useful life, Igus will take it back and recycle it again.
—Chris Haslam Jeremy White, Wired News, 1 Oct. 2025
By leasing the processors, OpenAI can spread its costs out over the useful life of the GPUs, which could be up to five years a person said, leaving Nvidia to bear more of the risk.
—Mackenzie Sigalos,ari Levy, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Modeling is performed using ensembles of ARIMA, LSTM and tree classifiers, which estimate remaining useful life (RUL) and classify potential failure modes.
—Nagesh Nama, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025
At the end of its useful life, Igus will take it back and recycle it again.
—Chris Haslam Jeremy White, Wired News, 1 Oct. 2025
By leasing the processors, OpenAI can spread its costs out over the useful life of the GPUs, which could be up to five years a person said, leaving Nvidia to bear more of the risk.
—Mackenzie Sigalos,ari Levy, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Modeling is performed using ensembles of ARIMA, LSTM and tree classifiers, which estimate remaining useful life (RUL) and classify potential failure modes.
—Nagesh Nama, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for useful life
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“Useful life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useful%20life. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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