optimal
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If you accept less than optimal treatment because you don’t want to be left.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
Still, the WireGuard protocol ensures optimal performance in many cases, and the speeds we got during testing were still completely usable for most tasks.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
"This ensures optimal coupling of the metasurface to the detection elements," notes corresponding author Wladislaw Michailow, who led the research at the University of Cambridge and later at Swansea University in the UK.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Kopke, who came from Munich to retain his title in the men's downhill race, said the conditions were "optimal" this year.
From BBC • May 25, 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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