maximize
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McDaniel is not only trying to rally his troops, but he’s also working to maximize his makeshift offensive line’s strengths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
“They operate the system to maximize exports,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“The strategy is simple to say and hard to do: maximize the profit of the car business today through product efficiency and localization, then fund the future,” he told investors at an event in August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Businesses are taking “a very close look” at transportation costs, trying to spot inefficiencies and looking to maximize shipping.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
In evading and warding off wage increases, employers are of course behaving in an economically rational fashion; their business isn’t to make their employees more comfortable and secure but to maximize the bottom line.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Regardless of whether the settlement maximizes California’s immediate economic benefits, the states’ ability to delay the transaction and force concessions is presented as a lasting institutional gain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
As the lines between podcasts, video and traditional talk shows have blurred, and every hot take gets clipped and spread across the internet, Charlamagne’s approach maximizes the current moment in media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Most people are only setting aside 6% in their retirement plans because that maximizes their employer-match. Catch-ups don’t come into play too often.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
This approach maximizes bandwidth efficiency and adapts to changes in signal quality.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026
Intensive agriculture is much more productive but maximizes the land’s exposure.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Foulkes said Mercury replaced some metal components with composite or polymer materials, and came up with aluminum alloys that maximized strength while remaining relatively lightweight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
In this case, HP also raised prices, maximized the value of the inventory it already had, and tried to push demand to higher-margin products.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The effect of clipping is context collapse maximized to further a hasty impression of a vaguely famous person.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Hopkinson told the Financial Times Business of Football Summit last month that Newcastle had not "maximized the opportunity before it".
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
But conventional agriculture focuses on maximized yields through high plant densities.
From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon
As a result, oil refiners are focusing on maximizing output now to take advantage of today’s circumstances instead of contemplating an expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“You’re just reaching the next level, you know? You’re maximizing your character.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
This trade-off almost always falls on the side of maximizing your reach and volume.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
PayPal, he said, remains focused on maximizing long-term shareholder value and carrying out its turnaround plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Regiomontanus’s procedure for measuring parallax ideally involved comparing the apparent position of a celestial object soon after dark with its apparent position not long before dawn, thus maximizing the parallax to be measured.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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