maximize
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According to Spooner, Morgan wanted to bring in corporate sponsors and feature music genres outside of punk to generate more interest and maximize profits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Professor Wright added: "We predict that honeybees have evolved to create glandular secretions which are the perfect food for their larvae, providing them with the ratios of essential amino acids that maximize growth."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
She also got the Amex Gold card in January to maximize rewards on dining out and other regular spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He believes Toni’s strict training regimen, often criticized as overly harsh, was precisely what allowed him to maximize his potential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But eventually I noticed Nick switching seats with Bram Greenfeld at lunch—calculated switching, designed to maximize his odds of sitting near Abby.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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Banana Ball is fast-paced, hilarious and maximizes fan engagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
In its lawsuit, Anthropic said it was founded on the belief that its AI should be "used in a way that maximizes positive outcomes for humanity" and should "be the safest and the most responsible."
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
Intensive agriculture is much more productive but maximizes the land’s exposure.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
The closest connection between our rankings and the companies that maximized compound return is 20th-place Exxon Mobil, a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 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
Each side minimized its own and maximized the enemy's.
From The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Charles Henry Wood
This trade-off almost always falls on the side of maximizing your reach and volume.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Thompson has proven that so far in Chargers training camp, sprinting around defenders and maximizing his 5-foot-9, 170-pound frame in passing drills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Instead of attempting full reusability from the beginning, the design focuses on partial reuse while maximizing efficiency.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Most of the break-even analyses and general advice I see focus solely on maximizing total lifetime Social Security benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 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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