The best use for \u201cutilize\u201d is to mean \u201cmake use of\u201d: \u201cRyan utilized his laptop in the library mainly as a pillow to rest his head on.\u201d In most contexts, \u201cuse\u201d is simpler and clearer. Many readers consider \u201cutilize\u201d pretentious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Indeed. In the greater scheme of things, this is very unimportant. But, in the greatest scheme of things, nothing matters. Not even poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hear the sound of fingernails on a blackboard, muffled and distant when I hear someone say “utilize” when they could so much more easily say “use.” For example: “Let’s utilize the time” instead of “let’s use the time.” There’s no need for it: The best use for \u201cutilize\u201d is to mean \u201cmake use of\u201d:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}