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maximize

[mak-suh-mahyz] / ˈmæk səˌmaɪz /




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The organization was desperate to pair Doncic with a rim-running, lob-catching center to maximize the star guard’s offensive capabilities as he enters the prime of his career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Once her son started school, Jonas wanted to switch to daytime hours to maximize her time with him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“You want to maximize the number of hours the child is doing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

If your husband is the higher-earning spouse, he may wish to wait before claiming to maximize survivor benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The buildings, in fact, had been designed to maximize the salvage value of their components.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

As the lines between podcasts, video and traditional talk shows have blurred, and every hot take gets clipped and spread across the internet, Charlamagne’s approach maximizes the current moment in media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Banana Ball is fast-paced, hilarious and maximizes fan engagement.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026

“The WBD Board has been guided by the singular principle of securing a transaction that maximizes the value of our iconic assets and delivers as much certainty as possible to our shareholders,” Warner Bros.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 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 proposed sale stalled after Judge Lopez questioned whether the sale process maximized value for creditors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

From a pragmatic viewpoint, certain experiences might be maximized by applying a certain logic to them.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

That can make maximizing the owner’s contribution expensive.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Meta, she said in a call with analysts, was focused on maximizing computing capacity this year and next, but spoke of “flexibility” and “being able to evaluate our actual needs in ’28 and beyond.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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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