optimizing

present participle of optimize

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Recent Examples of optimizing Theirs was the first company to specialize in optimizing design for performance, in both soccer and running. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 2026 Shared inference infrastructure is vital for fiscal viability, optimizing compute allocation, reducing TCO, and simplifying platform management. Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 The companies that build what the next era actually needs, rather than optimizing what the last era produced, are the ones that define the future. Vinod Khosla, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Through its partnership with Palantir, Ukraine uses the company’s PRISMA system in the operation planning stage of the attacks, optimizing the best flight routes to exploit radar and air defense blind spots and weaknesses. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2026 No longer are managers given sole discretion over writing out the lineup each day, not when there are entire analytics teams dedicated to optimizing the right matchups. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026 But within an ongoing profitability crisis — where overheads, such as freight and material costs eat into margins — brands must address the issues with agility, optimizing efficiency and cutting costs. Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 25 June 2026 In March, Versace’s Bertelli told WWD that Prada would also be optimizing the retail network and integrating processes across functions. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimizing
Verb
  • Pogačar is only improving as a rider, a scary proposition for man with his extraordinary palmares.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Higgins also says that improving resilience will mean changing the city’s building code to allow innovative new technology.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • The consensus was to focus first on upgrading the LHC to increase its luminosity—the number of collisions per second—rather than immediately beginning to build a successor.
    Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • Russia has converted its Soviet-era bomb stockpile into precision glide weapons, continuously upgrading them for greater range and resistance to electronic warfare, and reportedly launched more than 1,800 in early June.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • This approach is crucial for mitigating downsides and enhancing the benefits of AI for societal mental well-being.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • In addition to its instant, complexion-enhancing tint, the formula contains skin care ingredients lauded for their smoothing, quenching properties.
    Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 30 June 2026

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“Optimizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optimizing. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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