How to Use suboptimal in a Sentence

suboptimal

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• Markowitz isn’t the only one who feels that the IRS guidance is a suboptimal response.
  — Amber Gray-Fenner, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Investment and tax strategies that may have served you well for many years could now be suboptimal for the future.
  — Michael J. Francis, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• Mintz is on a mission to change the current and long-standing suboptimal standards of VC, and as a result, the future of funding.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
• That set up the long, suboptimal, 51-yard attempt by Campbell.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Sep. 2022
• The big question is whether this approach is suboptimal.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2021
• The Saints are 5-2 with a solid grip on the NFC's second wild-card spot, but resetting under center at the midpoint of a season is suboptimal to say the least.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
• There was the athletic-looking youth whose slow amble blocked the walking path so no one else could pass—suboptimal.
  — Lucy Liu, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• But a suboptimal response that’s ready to go, many scientists think, is better than waiting for the body to create one from scratch.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
• This can be caused by all sorts of factors, including suboptimal blood flow.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Even so, few candidates take advantage of the rule, because the optics of using campaign funds to pay the gas bill are suboptimal.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• And there are a ton of reasons that’s a suboptimal situation.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• The challenge is so frustrating for brands that most programs adopt a suboptimal design based on a simple earn and burn structure.
  — Christian Selchau-Hansen, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Hong was stunned to learn that his strategy of scoring Tetrises by dropping long bars into a left-side gap was suboptimal.
  — Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
• To one degree or another, we’ve all been challenged by, putting it mildly, a suboptimal 2020.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• Even when working parents know their childcare options are suboptimal, their kids still need to go somewhere.
  — Kendra Hurley, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
• Much of Pence’s career can read now as a study in suboptimal timing, with a politician who could seem almost ostentatiously out of step with the moment.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Furthermore, Leclerc's suboptimal 2.29 strikeout-to-walk ratio for his career may make Leclerc too risky an option for Texas to rely on.
  — Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• Decisions based on cost alone can lead to suboptimal outcomes.
  — Justin Rende, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Sometimes the fruit is available out of season, but cut into it, and the flesh is brown throughout from late harvesting or growing and storing in suboptimal conditions.
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
• But some groups are more equipped than others to find some degree of success amid otherwise suboptimal circumstances.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
• That ended a run of suboptimal travel for players and management.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• How do pro-Trump forces intend to address these suboptimal conditions?
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• Vogt and her team were thrilled with the results achieved in 2021 despite suboptimal growing conditions: Less-than-normal rainfall and warm weather resulted in fewer and smaller grapes on the vines.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2023
• That could be good news for McIlroy, who has thrived in weather that tilted toward the miserable and won all four of his major titles after suboptimal conditions.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• And women continue to suffer from suboptimal medical care because of procedures and devices that were flawed from the start.
  — Catherine M. Klapperich, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
• Their unquestioned rulership results in a wake of wreckage too, in the form of low morale, lack of loyalty, high attrition, suboptimal performance, etc.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Talk about Damone Clark actually being good and not sitting out a year or being suboptimal.
  — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Until now, the standard of care is oral and IV iron, which is massively suboptimal, beset by many adverse side effects, and, particularly in the case of IV, can be risky and expensive.
  — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
• His preference for control over competition often leads to policies that appear suboptimal in the short run.
  — Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2018
• However, some studies of suboptimal quality have produced unclear results.10 Some evidence points to low magnesium levels as a risk factor for anxiety and depression.
  — Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024