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suffice

[suh-fahys, -fahyz] / səˈfaɪs, -ˈfaɪz /


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Experts, however, advise moderation — saying that regular old water and a balanced diet generally suffice against a backdrop of wellness shortcuts and health hacks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 11, 2026

Analysts say, however, that such splits will not suffice to derail the negotiating process.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

A couple of examples related to Colossal should suffice.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

An email, which they had until the end of the month to send, would suffice.

From Salon May 10, 2026

“I can find another wet nurse. If there’s none amongst the wildlings, I will send to the mountain clans. Until such time, goat’s milk should suffice for the boy, if it please Your Grace.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

It’s not quite as effective when used without misoprostol, but it suffices as a backup option.

From Slate Nov. 6, 2024

It suffices to know that they appear time and time again across the centuries.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Instead, it sufficed that they possess an "inner beard," the strength and insight that grows within a man and is represented, but not necessarily embodied, by the beard that grows on his surface.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2024

This simple conversion also sufficed to activate thousands of genes associated with an inflammatory gene program that allows neutrophils to combat invading bacteria.

From Science Daily Feb. 14, 2024

For example, typhus was initially transmitted between rats by rat fleas, which sufficed for a while to transfer typhus from rats to humans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

That would be her expiation, though not a sufficing one; she recognized that.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon




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