promising solution

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meaningsofpromisingandsolution

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promising
adjective
uk
/ˈprɒm.ɪ.sɪŋ/us
/ˈprɑː.mɪ.sɪŋ/
Something that is promising shows signs that it is going to be successful ...
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solution
noun
uk
/səˈluː.ʃən/us
/səˈluː.ʃən/
the answer to ...
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(Definition ofpromisingandsolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Flexible employment has been widely proposed as apromisingsolutionto ' the problem ' of older workers.
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The purpose of this article is to review many of the mostpromisingsolutionmethods, with an emphasis on iterative methods for large and sparse problems.
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I believe, again, that the evidence is clear that it offers apromisingsolutionto the problem.
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Although we would all like to find a morepromisingsolutionto this problem, the prospect of doing so through legislation is bleak.
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I am sure that we should all like to find some morepromisingsolutionto the problem of numbers, as no doubt would the scientists.
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I do not believe increased vehicle utilisation is apromisingsolution.
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It seems to me that after all ships on trust do not offer a verypromisingsolutionof the difficulty.
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A much better and morepromisingsolutionis to establish a safe limit for the amount of lead in the manufacture of toys, and of other articles too.
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On the face of it prison cannot be regarded as a verypromisingsolutionfor any particular prisoner in whom one might happen to have a personal interest.
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Meanwhile, flexible forms of work have grown and are increasingly promoted as promising solutions to the ' problem ' of economic inactivity in later life.
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Poor solutions may be discarded and promising solutions may be refined through the evolutionary operators of mutation, which randomly changes a genome, and cross-over, which swaps random portions of genomes.
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I want to turn to what seemed to me the more promising solutions.
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Identifying proven and promising solutions to the nations housing challenges 3.
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This leads to refreshing new insights that reveal how some of the most promising solutions will come unexpectedly from outside of the energy sector itself.
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The young innovators laid out promising solutions to everyday problems faced by the community.
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One of the promising solutions is hybrid and electric vehicles.
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That is, they recruit foragers to search further the neighbourhoods of the most promising solutions.
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The most promising solutions are mentioned below: 1.
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In optimization, it uses a coarse search stage on a larger area in a search space in combination with an intensive faster search algorithm in the neighbourhood of promising solutions.
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