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adequacy

[ad-i-kwuh-see] / ˈæd ɪ kwə si /


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Hwang on Thursday said she was not relying on juror statements, but expressed concern about whether jurors could distinguish questions about the adequacy of firefighting efforts from evidence challenging whether the initial blaze continued smoldering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Note that the numbers say nothing about adequacy: Do low-income individuals have enough to live decently?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Such research, the report tells us, “may also be relevant in challenges to permitting decisions or to the adequacy of environmental impact assessments” of projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Our teeth offer another reminder that evolution prioritises adequacy over durability.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

That is odd, considering that America will continue to fund them at a cost of $4 billion a year; and given also the adequacies so painfully evident in Kunduz.

From Economist ● Oct. 8, 2015

Of course, changes in the adequacies of supplies would be taken account of on either interpretation.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

Some discussed directly their pains, joys, adequacies, and inadequacies.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

Wieland.—Wieland wrote German better than any one else, and had the genuine adequacies and inadequacies of the master.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


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