About average; acceptable.
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Examples for "adequate "
Examples for "adequate "
1 Progress on problem loans was far from adequate so far, he said.
2 Many of these victims lack the adequate support from family and community.
3 Children need adequate information about their rights and role in justice processes.
4 Background: An adequate diet contributes to health and wellbeing in older age.
5 Even that shall leave adequate funds for your first year or two.
1 The MEC regimen exhibited a good response rate with tolerable adverse events.
2 Vinflunine is an efficient and tolerable second line treatment in advanced TCCU.
3 I could drain a marsh, therefore the presence of such was tolerable .
4 But how does anyone decide what is unacceptable, broadly acceptable, or tolerable ?
5 In many systems, considerable variance in the organ growth process is tolerable .
1 She'd let them do their best and hope she ended up passable .
2 The roadway was in passable shape; they were making good time again.
3 The Baymouth turnpike was about the only passable road in the neighborhood.
4 During these months we return to school because the roads are passable .
5 Even in the rainy season, the Argentine plains had always been passable .
1 Boxed some at odd moments; was counted fair to middling .
2 Allow me to deliver one of my own: you have a fair to middling mind.
3 Now, that's w'at I call fair to middling .
4 The men are fair to middling .
5 The sailors smacked their lips over it once or twice, and pronounced it "from fair to middling . "
6 Without the arrival, Aviva's figures for 2015 would have been fair to middling in tricky conditions for all financial companies.
7 It was just sunset, and with a fair to middling breeze, dead aft, we stood still in the rapid current.
9 It does a fair to middling job processing my dinner into shit, but other than that, it clearly does not know shit.
10 In my many discussions with Beckett on the publication of Dream of Fair to Middling Women .
11 " Fair to middling well," said Ol' Mistah Buzzard, with a twinkle in his eyes.
12 "Pretty fair to middling vague," said Yerkes, "but"-judicially-"almostworthinvestigating!"
13 Between May 1931 and July 1932 Samuel Beckett wrote a novel called Dream of Fair to Middling Women.
14 "He's a fair to middling neighbor, isn't he?"
15 " Fair to middling , sir," the constable said.
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