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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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sweet spot1

First recorded in 1920–25
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“When you do make contact in the sweet spot, you want the best results. And when you’re hitting two circular things together at 100 mph, you want to make sure that impact zone is greater.”

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“And then in exchange try to take the thinner diameter that used to be at the sweet spot and put that on the tip.”

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Team principal Andrea Stella said he "would be very careful" about drawing conclusions from Norris' run, suggesting the usually cool conditions in Bahrain "were in a sweet spot for our car - they were conditions our car enjoys, cool, not much wind".

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That's sort of the sweet spot.

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It hits my elder-millennial sweet spot of melancholy indie rock.

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