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[op-tuh-muhl] / ˈɒp tə məl /


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In March, the volume of mortgage rate locks rose 13% month over month and 26% year over year, according to Optimal Blue, a mortgage technology and data company.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

“Governments of all jurisdictions and political persuasions have massively grown their respective footprints on the economy by substantially lifting spending,” said Stephen Walters, chief economist at Optimal Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Optimal bone health starts in utero, but our prepubescent years are key to setting our skeleton up for later life.

From Salon • May 1, 2024

Jung is senior author of a study, "Optimal free-surface pumping by an undulating carpet," which published in Nature Communications.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

This suggested to me the Optimal Fragmentation Principle: innovation proceeds most rapidly in a society with some optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation: a too-unified society is at a disadvantage, and so is a too-fragmented society.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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