Sentence examples for a usage error from inspiring English sources

Here's a usage error that's common but so subtle even our sharp-eyed readers haven't complained about it very often.

The main outcome variable is a final combined variable, defined as "having made some drug usage error and/or an inadequate adherence to treatment regimen".

Preliminary results show that it is possible to double the performance and to increase the system reliability up to one order of magnitude by managing processor features such as cache memory usage, error correcting codes, and processor exception handlers.

In my experience, one writing problem dwarfs every piddling usage error you can imagine.

Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB) Spatial span length: (number of items that can be held in short term memory), Spatial span total errors (the number of times an incorrect item is selected), Spatial span usage errors; the number of times an item is selected out of sequence.

The main outcome variable will be a final combined variable (adherence and medication usage errors).

The SSP involves presentation of colored squares on the laptop screen and tests the ability of participants to remember the longest sequences of squares which appear ('span length' test), the ' total errors' (the number of times an incorrect box is chosen) and 'total usage errors' (the number of times boxes are chosen out of the sequence in which they were presented).

We describe its features, advantages, disadvantages and usage errors.

The spelling checker now flags right spelling/wrong usage errors, as in, "I need to loose 10 pounds".

Teaching with The Times – Each week in the New York Times Magazine, published on Sundays, William Safire's "On Language" column explores common usage errors.

The availability of these equations avoids grounding the consequences assessment on diagrams and nomograms that otherwise would lead to interpretation and usage errors besides avoiding the automatic solution of the inverse problem.