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maximize

[mak-suh-mahyz] / ˈmæk səˌmaɪz /




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While new hospitals offer longer-term growth opportunities, expansions of existing hospitals and daycare facilities could provide more immediate opportunities to maximize returns from existing assets, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

In a simulated environment, A.I. agents were each tasked with running a vending machine and told to maximize profits.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art, increasingly, is maximized to encompass us, and Cosm understands this moment well.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Hopkinson told the Financial Times Business of Football Summit last month that Newcastle had not "maximized the opportunity before it".

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

“We have maximized our buy for these components from other sources as much as we could,” Ford COO Kumar Galhotra said on a call with analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Each side minimized its own and maximized the enemy's.

From The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Charles Henry Wood

For many professionals at this stage, the goal isn’t climbing higher, but reducing hours while maximizing their impact on organizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

That can make maximizing the owner’s contribution expensive.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

For Innovafeed, the priority isn’t maximizing prices but attracting long-term customers of insect protein, Ray said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Sugar in zero-g will float and the grains will separate, maximizing surface area.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir


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