adequate
Example Sentences
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"I'm not saying that they are adequate guardrails, but there are more guardrails in effect," he said.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
"If the measures are adequate, then I don't think people here are worried," his partner Isabel agreed.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the chatbot Claude, clashed with the Pentagon earlier this year over whether there were adequate safeguards around the military’s use of its technology.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Still, Lacaze expressed concern that Western nations weren’t doing enough to ensure adequate demand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
As it turned out, Enstice had a history of prematurely and incorrectly declaring deaths to be homicides without adequate supporting evidence.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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