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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a common use" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a typical or frequently occurring application or practice of something.
Example: "In many cultures, a common use of herbs is for medicinal purposes."
Alternatives: "a typical application" or "a frequent usage".
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This commonality of strains might be caused by a common use of natural water resources, and shows with what ease E. coli can travel between species.
A common use of the Michelson interferometer has one mirror mounted upon a carriage so that length of the light path in that branch can be varied.
WASHINGTON — Federal food regulators took a tentative step Monday toward banning a common use of penicillin and tetracycline in the water and feed given cattle, chickens and pigs in hopes of slowing the growing scourge of killer bacteria.
Nuclear experiments performed here, and the production of isotopes for scientific and medical research, which is a common use of research reactors elsewhere, require a high density of neutrons, the subatomic particles that are released when one atom is split, and which go on to split other atoms in a chain reaction.
EPDM rubber has a common use as seals in automobiles.
The tube drawing process has been in a common use for many years.
It's hard to argue that it will be a common use case out here in suburbia, however.
A common use case is to, by supervised machine learning, predict properties of molecules for which these properties are unknown.
Some have argued that for Philolaus psychê only meant "life," a common use in the fifth century (Burkert 1972, 270).
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A common use-case that emerged was the example of how chemists often reach the end of their experiment and find an unexpected result.
Although mobile transcription is a common use-case, link-shortening services generate output that is poorly suited to entry on mobile devices: links often contain numbers and capital letters that require time consuming mode switches on touch screen keyboards.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com