adequately
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No cheers this week so I can adequately spotlight what might be my jeers of the year: a taxi scam in Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The project, called Hell’s Kitchen, also failed to adequately involve local tribes in assessing the effect on cultural resources, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
They said that issues such as "chronic under-investment in forest thinning, fuel reduction, and prescribed burns, along with inadequate enforcement against arson", had not been addressed "adequately enough".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
There was a silence, during which I struggled for language to adequately express what I thought of this goofball advice.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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