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Recent Examples of optimizing
Sleepmaxxing is the act of optimizing your sleep routine to get as much sleep as possible via interventions like hacks and lifestyle changes.
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Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 2026
Care Requirements While this low-maintenance plant thrives in various growing conditions, optimizing its care will encourage robust, healthy growth.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 10 Mar. 2026
Part of the problem is that the greatest efficiencies AI offers today are far upstream in the drug-development process, including identifying hits and leads, assessing toxicity, optimizing medicinal chemistry, and narrowing which candidates deserve scarce laboratory resources.
—Henry Skinner, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
For more than a century, being smart meant accumulating knowledge and optimizing within relatively stable systems.
—Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
Robbie Farias is a digital audience leader with over a decade of experience optimizing local newsrooms nationwide.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
Here are our top picks for optimizing your home security setup.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
Hufnagel addressed those worries, saying that 2026 is focused on optimizing the footprint through sharper assortments and marketing to support full-price sell-through and sustainable long-term growth.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 26 Feb. 2026
In practice, that means brands must actively manage their presence across multiple AI ecosystems, rather than optimizing once for a single search engine.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 2026
Care Requirements While this low-maintenance plant thrives in various growing conditions, optimizing its care will encourage robust, healthy growth.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 10 Mar. 2026
Part of the problem is that the greatest efficiencies AI offers today are far upstream in the drug-development process, including identifying hits and leads, assessing toxicity, optimizing medicinal chemistry, and narrowing which candidates deserve scarce laboratory resources.
—Henry Skinner, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
For more than a century, being smart meant accumulating knowledge and optimizing within relatively stable systems.
—Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
Robbie Farias is a digital audience leader with over a decade of experience optimizing local newsrooms nationwide.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
Here are our top picks for optimizing your home security setup.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
Hufnagel addressed those worries, saying that 2026 is focused on optimizing the footprint through sharper assortments and marketing to support full-price sell-through and sustainable long-term growth.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 26 Feb. 2026
In practice, that means brands must actively manage their presence across multiple AI ecosystems, rather than optimizing once for a single search engine.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimizing
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The decrease solidified an improving trend over the prior two years, which saw only slight increases.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Is there an opening for improving things?—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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All of them are available on Amazon and mostly on sale, so upgrading your travel wardrobe has never been easier.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Mar. 2026
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SpaceX also plans on upgrading Starlink Mobile with second-generation satellites in 2027 that promise to increase the download speeds to 150Mbps per user.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
12 Mar. 2026
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There are hundreds of perennial and low-growing shrub groundcover plants, including short ornamental grasses that provide thick, dense cover, control erosion, and choke out weeds while enhancing the overall landscape.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Mar. 2026
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Turkey has been further enhancing its border defenses to be able to respond to a potential influx of people fleeing unrest after mass antigovernment protests in Iran were met by a brutal crackdown in January that left thousands dead.—
Serra Yedikardes,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Optimizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optimizing. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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