optimal
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"This ensures optimal coupling of the metasurface to the detection elements," notes corresponding author Wladislaw Michailow, who led the research at the University of Cambridge and later at Swansea University in the UK.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
A member of the diving team that recovered the bodies of Italian scuba divers in the Maldives has said the equipment they were found with "was not optimal".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
That does not give you an exact time frame — the optimal one is sometime between now and when you die.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
His most influential idea, “bounded rationality,” holds that people lack the information and computational capacity to make truly optimal decisions, and so they must “satisfice”—settle for an option that meets a “good enough” threshold.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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