ideally
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The goal is to build up the right level of confidence by 2030 to enable the launch of a program, which ideally means having flown by then.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Thaw the pastry according to the package directions — ideally in the refrigerator, where it can become pliable without turning warm or sticky — and unfold it gently.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Adults ideally are not intervening in the play but close by so they can intervene when necessary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
They say similar experiments should eventually be carried out with less enculturated apes, ideally wild populations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Regiomontanus’s procedure for measuring parallax ideally involved comparing the apparent position of a celestial object soon after dark with its apparent position not long before dawn, thus maximizing the parallax to be measured.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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