adequate
Example Sentences
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Instead, there’s nuance: U.S. commercial inventories may be adequate for now, but if the bulk of Middle Eastern oil supplies remains out of global reach for longer, then they could prove inadequate.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
For people who already have adequate nutrition, many supplements offer little or no measurable benefit.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
Several Dutch provincial museums have been targeted in recent years because of the difficulty in providing adequate security for culturally significant artefacts.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
And spokesman Ramdan Denny Prakoso said Wednesday that it continued to use "all available policy instruments" to "maintain adequate foreign exchange liquidity".
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
“Because you police departments can’t do an adequate job in the simple matter of detecting the minuscule number of Nexus-6s who balk—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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