suffixes

Example Sentences

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The suffixes “ist” and “ism,” as I’ve said before in these pages, assume conscious belief.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

She closely reads passages from their textbooks, breaks apart prefixes and suffixes and identifies root words.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024

"For those who want .ai suffixes, I'm seeing sales in the low five-figures, and sometimes in the six figures," he says.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023

With access to open source systems, they could build mathematical tools capable of generating the long suffixes that broke through the chatbots’ defenses.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

NOTE.—These suffixes are found only in words of French-Latin origin.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton