adequateness

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  1. adequacy
  2. usefulness
  3. acceptability
  4. expediency
  5. convenience
  6. applicability
  7. validity
  8. relevance
Noun
  • The court allowed friend-of-the-court briefs to be filed over the adequacy of the consent decree.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Public reporting has raised concerns about system stability, new workflows, call handling and callback functionality, delayed information, and the adequacy of hands-on training.
    — Sara Machi, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of adequacy
Noun
  • Such applications could make skin markings easier to conceal while preserving their usefulness when needed.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Almeida saw a gap between models’ ability to answer people’s questions and their usefulness in automating routine work.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of usefulness
Noun
  • Attacks aimed at Democrat Abdul El-Sayed have brought back painful memories for some in a contest that has raised questions about the acceptability of Islamophobia in politics.
    — Laura Beveridge, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Today, everyone from the Economist to the New York Times has heralded the coming psychedelics renaissance, as hallucinogens begin to gain greater cultural, medical and commercial acceptability.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026
Definition of acceptability
Noun
  • The expediency helps the series, developed by Nick Santora based on Lee Child’s books, to stay on a yearly cadence.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
  • With competition so fierce in the race to build and release the latest AI models however, the expediency of shaving off every possible drag on speed trumps all.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of expediency
Noun
  • While there’s no kitchen, the more rustic Coach House did have some impressive modern conveniences, including an automatic water dispenser for filling water bottles.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
  • When a supermarket chain experiences a cybersecurity incident, those conveniences can suddenly disappear.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of convenience
Noun
  • The general applicability became clear over the subsequent years.
    — Karl Deisseroth, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026
  • There is a broad debate over the applicability of PNB to modern anti-trust cases, with many legal scholars finding the application of a random number, without any real analysis of the potential harm a merger might cause, to be a fatal flaw.
    — Shubha Ghosh, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of applicability
Noun
  • According to the court, while NetChoice could challenge the validity of the Georgia law, the group had not sufficiently argued that enforcement of the law would be unconstitutional.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The canvassing board is made up of Garcia and two county judges, and is responsible for determining the validity of ballots and whether they should be counted.
    — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of validity
Noun
  • What comes next for liner jackets The lightweight build suits transitional seasons, which could stretch the style’s relevance into spring and well beyond 2026.
    — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The curators, David Breslin and Brinda Kumar, don’t accomplish this with appeals to timeliness or relevance but with a mighty selection of pieces—more than a hundred and twenty, from eighty-two different institutions—and smart exhibition design.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of relevance
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