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sweet spot
noun
plural sweet spots
Definition of sweet spot
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sports
: the area around the center of mass of a bat, a racket, or the head of a club that is the most effective part with which to hit a ball
If the bat connects near its sweet spot … it vibrates very little, much as a tennis racket feels solid if you hit the ball on the racket's sweet spot.— Sharon Begley The shape of the clubhead has a pronounced effect on [golf] shots that are not hit out of the sweet spot of the club . …— Steen Winther
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: an ideal or most favorable location, level, area, or combination of factors for a particular activity or purpose
Many doctors have concluded that there is something of a sweet spot on the age-education-experience continuum. They seek out clinicians who are no more than 10 years out of residency, old enough to have some mileage, young enough to be up to speed.— Nancy Gibbs, et al. To seafood men, Fulton is the jewel of the Atlantic coast, the sweet spot on the seaboard, and the best fish from Maine to Florida rolls into the markets in refrigerated trucks.— Jonathan Gold "We are considering a lot of options with the site," says Zach Nelson, executive vice president of marketing. "I think we are right in the sweet spot of what's required to make e-business happen."— Daniel Roth The winery in Rutherford, best known for its loamy Cabernet Sauvignon, has a sweet spot of 8 acres for Chardonnay, which has produced spectacular wines.— James Laube
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El Dorado 15 Year Old Demerara Guyana Rum ($45) The rum sweet spot. — Ross Mccammon, Popular Mechanics, "Why Craft Rum Is Getting Weird," 31 Aug. 2019 This week’s collection leads off with one storied estate still seeking that price sweet spot. — Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, "Hot Property Newsletter: What the (luxury) market will bear," 24 Aug. 2019 Today, every big retailer seeks the sweet spot at which in-store and online shopping feed business to each other. — Fortune, "Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround," 20 Aug. 2019 Some people speak of a Wonderlic sweet spot: 30 to 38, a range that would net most elite pro quarterbacks, including Andrew Luck, Tony Romo, and Colin Kaepernick. — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, "The Wood Chipper," 19 Aug. 2019 The first trailer for Shia LaBeouf’s Honey Boy has hit a dramatic sweet spot. — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, "Shia LaBeouf is Lucas Hedges' conflicted dad in autobiographical Honey Boy trailer," 8 Aug. 2019 Daytime highs will hit 75-76 degrees downtown, the seasonal sweet spot. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "San Diego to enjoy ‘Goldilocks’ weather during final days of July," 28 July 2019 Everyone has his own tastes, of course, but for me perhaps the sweetest spot in the Tippett canon came in the 1940s and 1950s. — Douglas Murray, National Review, "Michael Tippett’s ‘Timeless Music in Time’," 11 July 2019 What's more, his musical legacy has fallen into a strangely sweet spot on the Internet: big enough to have a huge number of fans uploading all manner of bootlegs and rarities, yet small enough to avoid a DMCA smackdown. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "The DMCA bell did not toll for a beloved musician—thus, I could grieve him," 6 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sweet spot.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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