adequate
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It was clear that night, among USC’s leadership, that the immediate response wasn’t adequate enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the past, courts have supplied this important backstop in other widespread policy challenges, such as the public health threats of tobacco use and the opioid epidemic, that lacked adequate legislative or regulatory responses.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Gulf Coast due to a lack of adequate storage capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
He correctly explained that companies already have strong incentives to build robust safeguards and not to rush out new models without adequate testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
However, the small quantities of SO2, CO and HC1, all of which have been detected in the Venus atmosphere, seem adequate for this purpose.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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