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maximize

[mak-suh-mahyz] / ˈmæk səˌmaɪz /




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“Whether it was a weird way or not, we learned a lot about how to try to be able to maximize him,” McVay said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The seven-season veteran is throwing less and working more on his footwork and timing to try to maximize how he delivers the football to playmakers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

“By pooling production volume, Ford and Geely will maximize the capacity of the Valencia plant, lower the cost of every vehicle built there, and compete at this emerging cost standard,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Vera is designed to maximize single-thread performance, which refers to a chip’s ability to execute a single chain of instructions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

After each man, she updates her relative ranking of her suitors and wonders what rule she should follow in order to maximize her chances of choosing the best of her projected N suitors.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Banana Ball is fast-paced, hilarious and maximizes fan engagement.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

This approach maximizes bandwidth efficiency and adapts to changes in signal quality.

From Science Daily Apr. 2, 2026

The timing maximizes the economic pain during the first-quarter peak tourist season.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

The bank forecasts sales of $2 billion by 2027, but says the number could be as high as $6 billion so long as Novo maximizes its head start over its closest rival.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

Intensive agriculture is much more productive but maximizes the land’s exposure.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Sending those ships on repeat voyages with quick turnaround times maximized the amount of crude they could get out of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

In this case, HP also raised prices, maximized the value of the inventory it already had, and tried to push demand to higher-margin products.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

Hopkinson told the Financial Times Business of Football Summit last month that Newcastle had not "maximized the opportunity before it".

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

The Rams selected the diminutive-but-speedy receiver in the second round of the 2021 draft, but McVay, who is regarded as perhaps the best offensive mind in football, never fully maximized Atwell’s skill set.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2026

But conventional agriculture focuses on maximized yields through high plant densities.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve

“We’re coming up with new ways on how to improve and maximizing potential,” Anderson said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Instead of attempting full reusability from the beginning, the design focuses on partial reuse while maximizing efficiency.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

FinOps—a blend of finance, engineering and product—emerged from the cloud-adoption boom of the 2010s as an approach to managing and maximizing the business value of technology and cloud spending.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Rather than buying AI stocks, investors can create “synthetic stock” that risks less money while maximizing gains.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

To judge from their behavior, all the rating agencies worried about was maximizing the number of deals they rated for Wall Street investment banks, and the fees they collected from them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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