satisfactory
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If the banks can’t give satisfactory answers, banking supervisors should require them to set capital aside as if the answer were the worst plausible one.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
There’s no satisfactory answer to that, although it’s fair to say that the papacies of Francis and Leo represent the first serious efforts to reckon with those more recent crimes.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
“The bank remains well-capitalized and the financial position of the bank remains satisfactory with sufficient liquidity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
The report from those visits, which the BBC has seen, said the facilities were "satisfactory" and a cold room with a capacity for four people was used on site.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
Dante, unlike the philosophers, took his geography seriously, but no philosopher could have found his abandonment of the fundamental principle that the universe was made out of spheres entirely satisfactory.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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