adequate
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In November 2022, Tom Nicholson Jnr's father Thomas Nicholson – who led TN Trawlers – admitted failing to get adequate care for a Filipino crewman, Joel Quince.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Larger groups can "compete with new players and maintain adequate levels of profitability in an increasingly integrated market", it added.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Instead, there’s nuance: U.S. commercial inventories may be adequate for now, but if the bulk of Middle Eastern oil supplies remains out of global reach for longer, then they could prove inadequate.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
For people who already have adequate nutrition, many supplements offer little or no measurable benefit.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
At that time there was not a single telescope in the whole of the Netherlands capable of 20X magnification—and yet the Dutch had plenty of fine telescopes perfectly adequate for military and naval use.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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