adequately
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“In practice, however, the facility received a large volume of patients, including patients with complex medical conditions, and the medical team was not adequately prepared to manage this population,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The bloc’s regulators earlier alleged that Meta wasn’t adequately enforcing its own minimum-age rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The Commission said Meta failed to adequately assess the risks posed by how Facebook and Instagram were designed, as well as how long children spend on the platforms, particularly at night.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Wittgenstein explained that there are some terms we have and use quite reliably which we cannot adequately define.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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