How to Use adequacy in a Sentence

adequacy

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  • Being unable to soothe a distressed baby can threaten a parent's feeling of personal adequacy concerning their parenting skills.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
  • So, the main metric to monitor going forward is not the size of the debt, but the adequacy of the tax base to service it.
    — Randy Brown, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The problems go so deep that the Band-Aid analogy doesn’t come close to adequacy.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 July 2019
  • Harris said, asked about the adequacy of defenses for Hawaii and Guam.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The war is causing worries about the adequacy of energy supplies around the world.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The adequacy of food stamp benefits has long been a question.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Hager and Vannier argued that the judge’s approval shouldn’t depend on the adequacy of the group’s performance.
    — oregonlive.com, 6 June 2019
  • Mere adequacy throughout the remainder of the roster would likely have gotten them to the postseason, and the Braves’ fairy tale wouldn’t have come to fruition.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Biden’s campaign is very much rooted in his OK-ness, his adequacy.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Its response was that no-trespassing signs should have been posted there and that the railroad would look into the adequacy of the railings.
    — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Over the past decade, though, Infiniti has felt sleepy, like it’s been striving for adequacy rather than greatness.
    — Manuel Carrillo Iii, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The appeals court ordered the agency to revisit the adequacy of its safeguards.
    — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2022
  • McConnell cited concerns with the adequacy of resources while in her role.
    — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • What could stop the U.K. getting an adequacy agreement?
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • All three types are needed to achieve resource adequacy.
    — Energy Northwest, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Walker questioned the state’s cavalier attitude about the crash and the adequacy of its response.
    — John Haughey, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Critics have raised concerns, however, about the adequacy of the testing plan.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
  • The district is $5,961 per student below the state’s own benchmark for funding adequacy.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Overall, capital adequacy ratios ticked down in the first half this year.
    — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Wooden worked with him in the aftermath, when there were questions about the adequacy of the department’s response prior to the explosion.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 18 Feb. 2018
  • All this comes after many small Chinese lenders have seen their capital adequacy levels plummet over the past half-decade.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 25 July 2022
  • The cutoff line is 110 percent of a district's adequacy target.
    — Kim Geiger, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Failure to address this problem leaves states off the hook for funding equity and adequacy.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The development has been in the works for at least a decade, but has hit roadblocks including a lawsuit that questioned the adequacy of the city’s environmental review of the project.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • The adequacy of the trust fund assumes the plants continue operating until the current licenses run out, a handful of years or decades from now.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Wasn’t the initial point of the ban to allow time for the federal government to review vetting procedures for adequacy?
    — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 29 May 2017
  • Copy editors fall into two camps: prescriptivists, who want to enforce The Rules, and descriptivists, who challenge the adequacy of those rules.
    — John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2023
  • In the meeting, much of the focus from officials was on the massive amounts of personal data tech companies collect from their users, and the adequacy and transparency of their terms of use.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The tensions come as similar complaints by teachers in other states have brought questions over the adequacy of public servant salaries into the news.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Quite plainly, the best guides to politicians’ adequacy are their words and actual performance in office.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023

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