satisfice

VERB
  1. decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal
    optimization requires processes that are more complex than those needed to merely satisfice
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How To Use satisfice In A Sentence

  • When you satisfice, you don't let an impossible quest for the perfect option destroy your enjoyment of the merely OK.
  • As Simon pointed out, we usually ‘satisfice’ instead of optimizing difficult problems due to limited time and insight, settling for a solution that is good enough.
  • optimization requires processes that are more complex than those needed to merely satisfice
  • Satisficers (yes, satisficers) make a decision once their criteria are met;when they find the hotel or the pasta sauce that has the qualities they want, they're satisfied.
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