A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

USES

Thu, 28 Dec '23
Functions
Wed, 27 Dec '23
Applications
Wed, 1 Nov '23
Applications
Mon, 30 Oct '23
Multitools have many of these
Sun, 29 Oct '23
Visits, as a restroom
Sun, 19 Mar '23
Exploits
Thu, 2 Mar '23
Purposes
Wed, 15 Feb '23
Manipulates
Fri, 20 Jan '23
A Swiss Army knife has many
Tue, 4 Oct '22
A multitool has a lot of them
Fri, 23 Sep '22
Capitalizes on
Mon, 18 Jul '22
What a Swiss army knife has lots of
Sun, 24 Apr '22
Doesn't waste
Sun, 20 Feb '22
Manipulates
Thu, 27 Jan '22
Arenas typically have many of them
Wed, 10 Nov '21
Exploits
Sun, 3 Oct '21
Exploits
Tue, 14 Sep '21
Finds a function for
Mon, 23 Aug '21
Manipulates
Tue, 3 Aug '21
Presses into service
Mon, 17 May '21
Employs
Sun, 24 Jan '21
Depletes, with "up"
Thu, 7 Jan '21
Exercises