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optimising

vb. (present participle of optimise English)

Usage examples of "optimising".

The techniques for optimising your population by ensuring only children of good heredity get born have existed for decades - you could even say for centuries, because if all you want to do is select, you can do it by conventional breeding methods.

Meanwhile, thousands of husbands are applying to clinics all over Yatakang for vasectomy operations, explaining that they do not want to father inferior progeny now that the chance of optimising the country's population has been offered to them.