was optimizing
- past progressive of optimize.
Example Sentences
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But in hindsight, I was optimizing for a travel lifestyle that I wasn’t really living, and I would have been better off picking a card that offered more of what I needed: free cash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The key to this study was optimizing the semiconductor material, which captures the photons, to broaden its preferred photon energies while aligning with the dominant energies produced by the heat source.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
OnePlus justified the decision by saying it was optimizing for battery life and heat, but users were rightly annoyed that they weren’t told about this behavior up front.
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2022
