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optimize

[op-tuh-mahyz] / ˈɒp təˌmaɪz /


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The proliferation of movies that run three hours or longer is driving new users to RunPee, the app that helps theatergoers optimize their bathroom breaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The yearly adjustments for inflation that the government makes to various tax inputs present an opportunity for those trying to minimize their lifetime tax bill and optimize their retirement strategies.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Our next goal is to optimize the body design to enable faster swimming," Raman says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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

James Cadwallader, co-founder and chief executive of New York-based Profound, which optimizes brand visibility in AI search, said his team typically works full time in the office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 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

While Liquid and other AI frontier model vendors offer these smaller models optimized to run on devices, the majority of enterprise applications today simply default to cloud models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Still, he says the company remains optimistic about the category, noting a 35% increase in revenue from PCs optimized for AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

With the gel structure optimized and the muscle cells strengthened, the researchers assembled their swimming device.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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

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

It is aiming to reduce that by $1 billion “by streamlining and optimizing our enterprise-wide spend, as well as strategic utilization of our expanded global portfolio to promote our key projects and initiatives.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The company’s thesis is that optimizing existing AI infrastructure could unlock significantly more compute than is currently available, said co-founder and co-Chief Executive Hans-Juergen Schmidtke.

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

At Mirror Tech we’re dedicated to optimizing human potential.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste


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