optimize
verb (used with object)
to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
optimized
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past participleof optimize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof optimize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
optimizeverb (used with object)to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
Example Sentences
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“We’ve made a car that looks like the future, designed and optimized around the passenger” said Ian Kettle, site manager for the Cybercab, on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Leopold noted that Arm mostly benefits from rising demand through its business selling royalties and licensing for its chip designs — though its first-ever in-house CPU optimized to support AI workloads could offer an advantage.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
DeepSeek, in turn, used a technique optimized by Moonshot to boost training efficiency and stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"In the end, we optimized the conditions to a practical level and, under ambient temperatures, achieved PEG-modified cleaving efficiency above 91% at 50°C within just one to two hours," stated Inagaki, the study's first author.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The members decided to fund two machines of different sizes, each optimized to produce different particles; the only question left was which lab would build which machine.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
