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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost using" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is on the verge of using something but has not fully committed to it yet.
Example: "I was almost using the new software, but I decided to stick with the old version for now."
Alternatives: "nearly utilizing" or "close to employing".
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Also, it doesn't help that [politicians are] almost using EU workers as a bartering tool.
It was almost using the power of suggestion and felt quite a spiritual thing.
Such images and their conservative styling were crucial in presenting Malcolm X as a legitimate political leader, says Tulloch. "He was almost using himself as a graphic argument.
"In musicals I don't think you have actors analyzing each moment, almost using a Stanislavskian analysis, which Doug does as he turns from Albin into Zaza, or from Mother into Albin, or in the way he punches through certain words in 'I Am What I Am,' " Zaza's Act I closer, a sung-through crescendo of survival.
We're almost using them as mirrors or TV screens in certain sequences, expressing their emotions".
If she's one of the many girls he's flirting with, he's almost using her as foreplay to go and connect with other women.
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His speech is peppered with assertive, accented "yeah s, almost used as punctuating stops.
We have become almost used to power that has bastardised what politics should be.
I almost used the word zany but I've got through a whole 'nother year without using it, hurrah.
It is undoubted that the twitter community of Leeds has almost used this as their 'twitter meet-up'".
Hanne almost used the espresso machine this week, but I spotted a rival coffee pot on Katrine's stove.
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