optimal
best or most favorable under a given set of circumstances
Optimal in a sentence
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The researchers sought the optimal conditions for the experiment to yield reliable results.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
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