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What did Captain James Cook provide to ensure sailors would have adequate amounts of vitamin C?

adequate

[ad-i-kwit] / ˈæd ɪ kwɪt /


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Gulf Coast due to a lack of adequate storage capacity.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

This would involve supporting them with adequate homes, water, food, electricity and community through schools, jobs, transport and safety.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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

Instead, he wants firms to "take adequate time" to safeguard the AI they are developing, and to ask for "third party evaluators" to check their work.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

After they get to college, it’s often too late for many of them who lack adequate backgrounds in algebra and analytic geometry.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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