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optimize

[op-tuh-mahyz] / ˈɒp təˌmaɪz /


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“This decision will optimize our store network and allocate resources more effectively to better serve our customers,” the company said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"And we wanted to optimize all these parameters to support live muscle cells."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hospitals have adopted software tools to optimize staffing, with nurses more regularly covering shifts on floors where they aren’t usually assigned, to meet patient ebbs and flows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Wrongful termination claims in the tech world are common immediately preceding large funding rounds as investors seek to optimize financial metrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The university had a reputation for spawning world-class scientists exploring how to optimize use of technology in airplanes and in the military, in the tradition of Broadbent and Dr. Treisman.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

He expects Nestlé’s revenue growth to reaccelerate as it optimizes its portfolio around areas like coffee and pet care.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Mattel said the job cuts are part of an effort to save money as the company optimizes for growth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

To Joel Lewenstein, head of product design at Anthropic, AI slop is “generic content, undifferentiated content — something that optimizes for volume and passive consumption over everything else.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

The app optimizes messages in low-connectivity areas and provides features such as a sticker maker and disappearing messages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Such a structure is generated by the technological implementation of the brain, and it optimizes the activity of the brain in a section of the external reality.

From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa

Slack, Instagram, Netflix, ChatGPT and others are optimized to take advantage of the larger inner screen, as well, of course, as Apple’s own apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The findings challenge the assumption that birds traveling enormous distances must have wings optimized primarily for efficient long-distance flight.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Using their optimized conditions, they successfully synthesized lactones from 18 different ketone compounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

This is the problem with imagining hospitality as another task that can be optimized.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The members decided to fund two machines of different sizes, each optimized to produce different particles; the only question left was which lab would build which machine.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Battery makers are largely focused on optimizing existing manufacturing lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

As a result, brands are optimizing their content to be discovered through different stages of AI browsing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Co-founder and co-CEO Patrick Jahnke most recently led a data center team at SAP, optimizing its AI usage, among other things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The term is less a description of any particular food than a prediction about what happens when the people optimizing a restaurant become increasingly distant from the people cooking in it.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The White House, one learns, operates with the express purpose of optimizing the well-being, efficiency, and overall power of one person—and that’s the president.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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