suffice

The assistant coaching job will have to suffice.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

That might be a little heavy-handed when a simple talking-to, or a vote-whipping operation that’s more on top of things, could suffice.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Meaning any excuse for why the Trojans aren’t breaking through will no longer suffice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

It tells customers: "What you see is what you pay. We do not accept tips, your kind words and return visits will suffice."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

I saw many interesting things, some of which may bear mentioning later, but for now suffice to say that she showed me all the vast and varied corners of the Underthing.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The percentage of Yuka users who pay for premium is tiny but that suffices because the total number of users is so enormous, she adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

But military experts say that domestic production now suffices to ensure the front line wouldn’t imminently collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

I could go on, but it suffices to say that “The Osbournes” sits near the root system of celebreality’s Tree of Life, for richer or poorer.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

There exist too many of these moments to catalog, but perhaps one example suffices to illustrate the enormous power Walters wielded.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2022

Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

He said their occupation of the guardhouse would have sufficed in causing disruption and the damage they caused was "gratuitous" and for "performance purposes only".

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

Is it remotely possible that any such explanation would have sufficed in previous eras?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

The defensive highlights sufficed against the struggling Raiders, a team with future Hall of Famer Tom Brady now on the ownership roster but, unfortunately for coach Antonio Pierce, not playing quarterback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024

“School was OK, but I loved Wales,” would’ve sufficed.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Equations occasionally crept into his argument, but in most cases words would have sufficed.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

It was the more plentiful elements that were usually found first, relatively simple experiments sufficing to confirm their existence.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021

That is what the grant of Article 3 life tenure offers a man: the ability to do precisely what he decides to do, with no amount of political pressure sufficing to change that.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2021

Tied up in the respect and ubiquity afforded to these men is the mononym, or a single word sufficing for a person’s whole name.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020

Their literary wars are more like the battles of boys in the woods, waged wholly in imaginary terms, with cries of “I got you!” sufficing to declare victory.

From Slate ● May 28, 2015

He quitted the service in which he had attained the rank of major, and retired with his daughter to Wolkenstein Court, the modest income from which, joined to his pension, sufficing for his simple needs.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)