optimal
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A member of the diving team that recovered the bodies of Italian scuba divers in the Maldives has said the equipment they were found with "was not optimal".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Then she advises readers that the purpose of exercise is to achieve an optimal “waist-to-hip” ratio supposedly preferred by men.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
Strip that away “and what emerges is a picture of a company that has found an optimal vehicle to fuel its Bitcoin acquisition effort,” Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer wrote in an email to clients Wednesday.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
The decision will help it “make more optimal economic decisions around how we best utilize our debt and cash portfolios to support the business,” CFO Kevan Parekh said.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
This suggested to me the Optimal Fragmentation Principle: innovation proceeds most rapidly in a society with some optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation: a too-unified society is at a disadvantage, and so is a too-fragmented society.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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