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Six example sentences with maximize, each labelled with its topic.
To maximize the benefit of a short session, athletes shorten rest periods rather than adding another twenty minutes.
Fitness
Funds that maximize returns over a single quarter often carry risks the statement will not show for two years.
Finance
Speedrunners maximize movement by chaining two glitches, cutting eleven seconds from a route that had stood for four years.
Gaming
Textbook firms maximize profit by producing until the last unit costs exactly what it earns, a rule few managers apply consciously.
Economics
The tower was angled to maximize the floor area facing the harbor, since those apartments sell for a third more.
Architecture
Open the aperture wide to maximize the light reaching the sensor, then shorten the shutter so the frame does not wash out.
Photography
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