optimal
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If you have a better sense of how long you’ll live, you can claim Social Security at the optimal time and adjust your portfolio to match your expected life span.
From Barron's • 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
Then she advises readers that the purpose of exercise is to achieve an optimal “waist-to-hip” ratio supposedly preferred by men.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
The decision will help it “make more optimal economic decisions around how we best utilize our debt and cash portfolios to support the business,” CFO Kevan Parekh said.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
“You’re not feeble. You merely had a suboptimal moment. I’m sure you’ll be optimal from now on.”
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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