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Discover LudwigThe word "Suboptimal" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a situation or condition that is not the best or most effective. Example: "The team's performance was suboptimal, leading to a disappointing outcome in the competition." Alternatives include "less than ideal" or "not optimal."
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Suboptimal
adjective
Less than optimal.
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"We have scrutinised the care of any patient where we think there might have been imperfect care and the trust is in contact with all of the patients who have suffered significant suboptimal care.
Gilbert says that stopping them prematurely will not directly increase the risk of resistance – that more commonly happens with prolonged treatment on suboptimal doses.
Surely, even when corporations become partners, they continue practices that are suboptimal in Greenpeace's eyes.
While the review published on Wednesday found no evidence of systematic data manipulation, it did find evidence of poor documentation and record-keeping and identified a number of patients who had experienced suboptimal care, diagnosis or treatment.
Zero regulating is vastly suboptimal to rational regulating.
Combined with the reality that policy responses to debt crises are almost always suboptimal, it seems reasonable to try to think of ways to prevent unsustainable levels of borrowing.One challenge is determining what counts as "sustainable".
The dollar's position is "suboptimal but stable and self-reinforcing," he writes.
The text is also thick with such phrases as "suboptimal noncooperative outcomes" and "systematically impactful".
The gamble of democracy is that this evidently unwarranted equality of influence may deliver suboptimal policy in the short run, but will deliver the most materially and morally satisfactory results in the long run.
To say the result is suboptimal is to understate the situation.
But when everyone is screaming fire and clambering to get out, the result is suboptimal even if the theatre really is burning (and who can even tell in all that chaos?).
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