adequate

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The government’s August 2025 memo at the center of the legal battle directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to get more information from colleges to “provide adequate transparency into admissions.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"Everyone understands what women really want: social guarantees, an adequate income, the ability to afford housing, and, most importantly, tranquillity and security," she said.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Speaking to the BBC, Kebede said "we all support" a desire for more inclusion, but "there is just not the adequate funding or staffing levels to meet that aspiration".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Binderbauer says he sees a pathway to adequate energy confinement and is confident in TAE’s technology and experience building complex machines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Most scholars who came and went found it adequate to open one of them, then quietly close it behind himself, but not this man.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor