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However, when one considers the past tense, one might purchase a "used" car, not a "utilized" car. To avoid the connotation of something "used up" most sellers now substitute the term "previously owned or driven"
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Perhaps the usage of commencement is to refer to the beginning of a new stage of ones life after the years spent learning and then forgetting much of what was taught for all those years after kindergarten. That reminds me of a poem or song i once learned:
Plato, Euripides, Socrates, Diogenes,
Were known for their Philosophy.
The more you study, the more you know,
The more you know, the more you forget,
The more you forget, the less you know,
So, why study?
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Pooh-Bah
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>one might purchase a "used" car, not a "utilized" car
The other word we use is second-hand as in "would you buy a second-hand car from that man?!" I only thought about the strangeness of the word when a friend said that she wouldn't buy a "second hand house", a term I have never heard used (except, maybe, in the context of a brand new house which has been sold very soon after it is built). We don't say a "used" house either, maybe because houses don't get "used up".
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enthusiast
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To avoid the connotation of something "used up" most sellers now substitute the term "previously owned or driven"
...or pre-loved.
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Carpal Tunnel
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one might purchase a "used" car, not a "utilized" carPerhaps because some motorists have not mastered driving skills as effectively as others?  wow
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