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USING

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the USING answer page.

Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• DOPED (1 uses in xd)
• WAR (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for USING

Every other clue in this collection answered by USING, most used first.

• Taking advantage of - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Employing - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Putting to work - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Exploiting - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Exercising - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
• Putting into service - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Bringing to bear - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Partaking of - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Manipulating - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Via - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• By means of - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's ___ your head!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Bring together - UNITE, used 263 times
• Extreme - ULTRA, used 197 times
• Dark - UNLIT, used 186 times
• Up to - UNTIL, used 153 times
• Customary - USUAL, used 148 times
• Join forces - UNITE, used 146 times

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