adequacy
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Our teeth offer another reminder that evolution prioritises adequacy over durability.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Maxxing, for the most part, fails to satisfy three of those principles — adequacy, balance and diversity.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
It intends to use the proceeds to meet future capital requirements, including onward lending and regulatory compliance on capital adequacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Fourth, adequacy: Yes, the plaintiffs and their lawyers can represent this class fairly.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 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
Some discussed directly their pains, joys, adequacies, and inadequacies.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
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
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Power Suffix: -acy
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