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  • Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

    "Wordy Rappinghood" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2010.