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efficiency

[ih-fish-uhn-see] / ɪˈfɪʃ ən si /


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In their purest form as market-tracking index funds, they offer broad diversification at high tax efficiency and amazingly low cost.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Airlines for America, an industry trade group, said the Smart tool has the potential to bolster safety, increase capacity and improve efficiency that will benefit travelers and shippers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Teams in the Premier League counter-attack with greater efficiency so being solid behind your own attacking play is absolutely vital.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Some of the latest aircraft feature cockpit windows that are also curved, to make the plane more streamlined, which improves fuel efficiency.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Sir Winston insisted the Lord High Chancellor try to improve the efficiency of the courts.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

AI adoption, and the efficiencies and productivity gains it promises, may provide the U.S. with a plausible path to absorbing higher interest-rate costs.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

There have been mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, overlaps, layoffs, and quote-unquote efficiencies all along the way.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

While the official line in the current climate is that efficiencies have to be made, unions describe the move more like cuts.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

The technique produced DNA assembly efficiencies two to five times higher than those achieved with conventional restriction enzyme methods.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Having absorbed Lawrence’s confidence that further efficiencies eventually would be achieved, Groves reduced the specification for Y-12 to five hundred tanks, or five racetracks.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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