adequacy
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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
Per the World Health Organization, a healthy diet is made up of four basic principles: adequacy, balance, moderation and diversity.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
Plant-based diets can still be healthy choices, but they may require careful planning and, in some cases, supplementation to ensure nutritional adequacy, particularly in later life.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
The adequacy of AI to accurately identify weapons has been subject to scrutiny.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
He left me to my thoughts, which mainly concerned my own adequacy.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Of course, changes in the adequacies of supplies would be taken account of on either interpretation.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
Some discussed directly their pains, joys, adequacies, and inadequacies.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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Power Suffix: -acy
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