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sweet spot

[sweet spot]

noun

  1. Sports.the spot on a club, racket, bat, etc., where a ball is most effectively hit.

  2. a point, range, or particular set of conditions that will achieve the most desirable or effective outcome.

    The trick is finding the sweet spot between making the puzzle challenging but not impossible.



sweet spot

noun

  1. sport the centre area of a racquet, golf club, etc, from which the cleanest shots are made

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweet spot1

First recorded in 1920–25
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The sweet spot for those new homes, Glaeser and Gyourko show, was in “high price, low density” tracts—places that were in high demand, relative to the metropolitan average, and very suburban in character.

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India and the US are also negotiating a trade deal that could put Asia's third-largest economy in a sweet spot to benefit from the so-called "China exodus" - as global firms shift operations to diversify supply chains.

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That’s known as the sweet spot, a place where he, and jockey Umberto Rispoli, can make decisions about how to run the race.

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Soil experts differ on the perfect number between acidity and alkalinity, but the sweet spot is generally believed to be between 6.5 and 7.2, Wallace said, and some scientists believe plants in SoCal can tolerate alkalinity as high as 7.9.

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The sweet spot, after all, isn’t about neatness or perfection.

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