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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

Such research, the report tells us, “may also be relevant in challenges to permitting decisions or to the adequacy of environmental impact assessments” of projects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

The EA said they were to scrap the schemes due to "concerns about the adequacy of health care provisions" for children taking part.

From BBC Mar. 27, 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

He left me to my thoughts, which mainly concerned my own adequacy.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

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

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




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