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  • n  the quality of being usable

  • The Defense Department's study of the practicability of a volunteer army, made five years ago, proved to the department's satisfaction that it still would not work.
  • The Bureau of Agricultural Engineering dispatched an investigator to look over the Wurtele harvester, would venture no comment whatever as to its practicability pending his report.
  • Other chemists as learned as Professor Keyes, however, doubt the practicability of his electroplating with aluminum.
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  • Thomas Cook in The Observer Blog (blog)
    As he marched along from his native Market Harborough to Leicester, Cook recalled in old age, "the thought suddenly flashed across my mind as to the practicability of employing the great powers of railways and locomotion for the furtherance of...
  • John McCain in BP News
    McCain, saying the question has been one of "great struggle" for those in the pro-life community, said, "I am wildly optimistic that skin cell research, which is coming more and more into focus and practicability, will make this debate an academic...

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