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adequacy

[ad-i-kwuh-see] / ˈæd ɪ kwə si /


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Note that the numbers say nothing about adequacy: Do low-income individuals have enough to live decently?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Maxxing, for the most part, fails to satisfy three of those principles — adequacy, balance and diversity.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

Plant-based diets can still be healthy choices, but they may require careful planning and, in some cases, supplementation to ensure nutritional adequacy, particularly in later life.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026

The adequacy of AI to accurately identify weapons has been subject to scrutiny.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

That is odd, considering that America will continue to fund them at a cost of $4 billion a year; and given also the adequacies so painfully evident in Kunduz.

From Economist ● Oct. 8, 2015

Of course, changes in the adequacies of supplies would be taken account of on either interpretation.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

Wieland.—Wieland wrote German better than any one else, and had the genuine adequacies and inadequacies of the master.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some discussed directly their pains, joys, adequacies, and inadequacies.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson




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