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Answer for the clue "Obtain some value from ", 3 letters:
use

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n. the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [syn: usage , utilization , utilisation , employment , exercise ] a particular service; "he put his knowledge to good use"; "patrons have their ...

Usage examples of use.

The words shimmered in her mind, his ability to use telepathy growing stronger with each use.

He seized, knew he was in trouble, and put himself out, using his ability as a dreamwalker.

For if invocations, conjurations, fumigations and adorations are used, then an open pact is formed with the devil, even if there has been no surrender of body and soul together with explicit abjuration of the Faith either wholly or in part.

He did manage to use his fire magic on a few of them, setting their shirts and hair ablaze, and that forced the rest to reconsider their attack for a time.

She whirled, her right hand raised, but before she could use the controlling ring she lay sprawled on the floor, one side of her face ablaze from the blow of a phantom hand.

The skin of this young creature, from continual ablutions and the use of mollifying ointments, was inconceivably smooth and soft.

I used to feel so sorry for these Aboriginal people, I wondered how they could come to be so poor.

It was the abortifacient, she was sure, that was what she was using to detect Sime fetuses.

It was used in many of our potions, from the sleeping potions and pain-killers to the abortifacients and life-drainers.

But now he realized that it must be only an abortus being used in some experiment.

The wharf guards are so used to seeing me shuffle past, they would not notice if Abri turned tumbles under my coat.

The latter privilege was deemed to have been abridged by city officials who acted in pursuance of a void ordinance which authorized a director of safety to refuse permits for parades or assemblies on streets or parks whenever he believed riots could thereby be avoided and who forcibly evicted from their city union organizers who sought to use the streets and parks for the aforementioned purposes.

He should boast of his accomplishment and use it as a warning to any others who might attempt to abscond with the affections of his mate.

He publicly chastised the cardinals for absenteeism, luxury, and lascivious life, forbade them to hold or sell plural benefices, prohibited their acceptance of pensions, gifts of money, and other favors from secular sources, ordered the papal treasurer not to pay them their customary half of the revenue from benefices but to use it for the restoration of churches in Rome.

With a young child and an abusive boyfriend, she had used up all the reserves of hope that she had stored up for emergencies and hard times.