OPTIMIZED Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

optimized

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past tense of optimize

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Recent Examples of optimized Its TPUs are already optimized around large-scale inference economics, and recent Google work on TPU inference has emphasized meaningful tokens-per-second gains from better inference techniques on TPU pods. — Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The goal is to improve how the company’s network is built, operated and optimized. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026 Hornbill adds more grip and leverage to that equation, creating a folder that is still optimized for slicing but feels more substantial when the task becomes demanding. — New Atlas, 21 July 2026 The new project, which has already started pre-production, will either be a standard show or one optimized for the short-form vertical viewing market. — William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026 Those launch pads are optimized for equatorial orbits, so SpaceX may need launch sites for missions to Sun-synchronous orbits. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

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Math scores in Fort Worth ISD and across Tarrant County have not improved as much as reading scores in recent years.

— Samuel O’Neal July 31, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026
Estrogen-containing therapies are linked to not only decreased cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among younger patients, but also to improved quality of life.

— Versha Pleasant, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

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For more than a decade now, European and indeed American politicians have known that real, fake, enhanced, or context-free pictures of migrants jumping fences will immediately create a wave reaction.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026
The passing of 30 years has only enhanced the appeal of the group’s Nashville detour, shifting attention from the incongruity of Ween cutting a country record to the joyous chemistry between these old pros and young punks.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 1 Aug. 2026

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Nobody imagined that when the first-team training facility at Benton underwent a long-overdue revamp in 2022, it would be upgraded again in 2026, with a long-term solution still not settled upon.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
And so Monaghan’s Saloon was born in 1892 in a wooden building, which was upgraded in 1901 to the brick structure the bar and grill currently calls home.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026

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