be adequate
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Chowdhury said: "I did not want this job at the Home Office, I was told there would be adequate support and I could work whatever hours I wanted to work."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week that the verification arrangements appeared to be adequate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
There must be "adequate regulation also beyond the banking perimeter", to ensure they can absorb the risks they take, Maechler said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 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
Gentle to the clumsy, girl-voiced boys whom he trained to be average, to be adequate, as he hit the soft fungoes to the outfield green.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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