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maximize

[mak-suh-mahyz] / ˈmæk səˌmaɪz /




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They also suggest that reducing treatment interruptions could help maximize the drugs' protective effects on the heart.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

These days, the goal is to get traded, retain Bird rights and maximize earnings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Refiners are earning high returns as fuel prices outpace crude costs, giving them a strong incentive to maximize production even as the broader oil system remains constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

He had access to both a pension and defined-contribution plans with employer matching, though it was sometimes tough to maximize saving when he had young children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The curriculum was extremely quantitative, focused on figuring out how to maximize benefits and minimize costs, without much concern for what those benefits achieved and the costs created.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Regardless of whether the settlement maximizes California’s immediate economic benefits, the states’ ability to delay the transaction and force concessions is presented as a lasting institutional gain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

You’ll also want to decide whether your next set of tires needs to be the more-expensive, low rolling resistance kind that maximizes EV range, or cheaper, conventional tires that might reduce range by 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

This approach maximizes bandwidth efficiency and adapts to changes in signal quality.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026

This increases the odds you itemize, clears the future AGI floor, and maximizes deductions while the rules are more favorable.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Intensive agriculture is much more productive but maximizes the land’s exposure.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“You want to be the highest water user in that building because then you have maximized your investment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

In this case, HP also raised prices, maximized the value of the inventory it already had, and tried to push demand to higher-margin products.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

The effect of clipping is context collapse maximized to further a hasty impression of a vaguely famous person.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

For example, Lilly executives thought they had maximized production of tirzepatide, the main ingredient in its top-selling weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound, to meet the explosive demand that led to widespread shortages early on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

He is even not unwilling it shall pass if only the disaster to the country is maximized by Adult Suffrage.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

As a result, oil refiners are focusing on maximizing output now to take advantage of today’s circumstances instead of contemplating an expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

This trade-off almost always falls on the side of maximizing your reach and volume.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

“If you have access to a health savings account, consider maximizing those contributions as well,” said Taylor, “as they can provide tax benefits today and in retirement.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

“We’re coming up with new ways on how to improve and maximizing potential,” Anderson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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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