sweet spot

noun

plural sweet spots

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

: 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

Examples of sweet spot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Harris and Walz were both born in 1964 — placing them in the sweet spot for that usage. —

Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024 With a bigger focus on green materials and the latest textile tech, today’s fabric trends are about finding the sweet spot between great design, comfort, practicality, and doing right by the planet. —

Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024 For marketers focused here, this demographic is the sweet spot. —

Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024 In Milwaukee, Trump has hit the MAGA-Republican Party’s sweet spot with his selection of Ohio Senator J. D. Vance as his running mate—a youthful, articulate, intellectually agile pugilist. —

Marvin Kalb and Garrett Mitchell, TIME, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for sweet spot

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