as in acceptability
the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately
the overall satisfactoriness of the service led us to leave a reasonable tip
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Noun
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However, political observers and those on the right know that Kirk, as founder of Turning Point USA, was at heart an activist who transformed conservative youth politics through his robust organizing network and, in the process, changed the social acceptability of Trumpism among America's youth.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025 -
From my perspective, the real measure of acceptability isn't whether AI assisted in the process, but whether the final output demonstrates sound reasoning, originality and accuracy.—
Morey Haber,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There are few people in human history whose last names alone are sufficient to conjure up kindness, goodness, wisdom, grace—Mandela, Gandhi, King, Lincoln.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Any starchy side to soak up all the goodness!—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The findings also show that the 2025 cost-of-living adjustment, applied in October 2024, did little to improve the adequacy of SNAP benefits.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Network adequacy calculations become fiction, exposing organizations to regulatory scrutiny and market access restrictions.—
Tammy Hawes,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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To determine the sufficiency of the evidence, the appellate judges identified the reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the circumstances proved.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
19 Aug. 2025
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Tsangari doles out information cagily, turning over narrative cards with calculated delay, a bare sufficiency that undercuts her world-building in favor of point-making; the just-enough story is also a just-so story.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Satisfactoriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satisfactoriness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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