OPTIMIZE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

optimize

verb

Definition of optimize

as in to improve

as in improve We need to optimize our website for improved performance.

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Recent Examples of optimize The focus was how AI can be integrated and optimize the existing business – rather than presentation of noisy (and controversial) slates of AI TV shows and movies. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 So Bert Celis and his team in Belgium have spent six years optimizing the Aerobag, a personal airbag for road cyclists. — Adam Schram, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 So not even over evolutionary time, but adapt behaviors to really optimize trade in those moments. — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 Pushing its massive wheels to the absolute corners of the chassis, the vehicle optimizes its footprint for unparalleled interior room. — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for optimize

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The company is reviewing costs, operations, and portfolio of brands to improve performance.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
But Hall and Woodford, in separate contributions, set about improving the Keynesian model to take into account how consumers and businesses actually make decisions about whether to invest and spend.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026

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Pierce and Kember were born in the same place on the same day, a lore-enhancing coincidence too stupid to make up.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
Here will be the makings of an 85-acre live-work-play sector of the city that theoretically will seamlessly nestle into a neighborhood and enhance everything from The Crossroads Arts District to Union Station and the National WWI Museum & Memorial.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026

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