efficient
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Behind the scenes, sophisticated algorithms analyze networks of roads and intersections to identify efficient paths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Kinnock said there would no be "much of an argument" against the idea if it meant that "Wales was better protected, that the streets were safer" and "that the justice system was more efficient".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Williams: It's still a theoretical result, but it opens up the possibility of much more efficient ways of computing in an enormous variety of scenarios.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some in the Brewers organization believed that would have been the more efficient move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
But it would not be until the early 1940s that a major breakthrough would allow more efficient undersea explorations, discoveries, and excavations in the form of an invention by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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