optimum

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Once temperatures move beyond this optimum, however, performance declines rapidly.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

The CQC told me it accepts that the timescale is not optimum, but says it has to balance speed and the importance of getting comprehensive findings right.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

The engineers have to work out how best to deploy whatever energy they can recover through a lap for the optimum performance.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

“It doesn’t operate at the optimum performance that was originally modeled, but it still generates electricity for 120,000 homes in California,” Hogan said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

The experience of true, passionate love that had been snatched away from me just when it had been in my grasp— Nil satis nisi optimum, interrupted my father’s voice, booming inside my head.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson