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That prefix would also have to remind the AI to obey the laws of physics with wording like: “gravity and inertia respected—mass has real weight, correct contact shadows, no floating props.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Sharks had been swimming in the culture before that, to be sure, often with the prefix “man-eating” appended, though men eat sharks too, and way more often — so who’s the real apex predator?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

The prefix was used to indicate which local authority issued the registration mark.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

The human rights center disclosed in its 2019 report that it used the federally assigned prefix “RPN-” for “repatriate” to plug information into free flight-tracking websites and obtain a plane’s tail number and ownership.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

It combined the Greek prefix eu—“good”—with genesis: “good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Paris and Geneva families settled their dispute in 2018, agreeing to add prefixes or additional names in marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

“It is a very difficult word,” Haviv said, veering gracefully around the pileup of prefixes that Congress chose to describe the 250th anniversary of American independence — fast approaching on July 4, 2026.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

To boost comprehension, students learn about prefixes, root words and suffixes — for example that “bene” means good or “audi” means hear.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2022

Once he had swallowed a good portion of the English vocabulary, he began to taste the familiar ingredients, the Greek seasoning in the roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Mr Bijoor suggests a better strategy would have been to operate Air India separately for five years, focusing on improving service standards, while maintaining Vistara as a distinct brand with Air India prefixed to it.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

Basic Care has a large Amazon logo right at the top, Stone and Beam notes that its products are “exclusively on Amazon,” and Rivet’s product names are prefixed with “Amazon Brand.”

From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2021

Other Lamonts married descendants of the Plymouth Puritan William Bradford, Ned’s grandfather prefixed by nine “greats.”

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2018

A series of journals prefixed “Computers and” suggest that Maxwell spotted the growing importance of digital technology.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2017

When prefixed to the name of an office, ex- denotes that the person formerly held the office named: as, ex-mayor, the former mayor.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

The ubiquity of “Design” has rendered itself in many forms, prefixing and suffixing subjects including graphic, product, industrial, computer, systems, architecture, community, environments, molecules, and more.

From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2012

Ever since Hollywood started prefixing adaptations of the Bard's work with "William Shakespeare's", authorial provenance has inflicted some unsightly vandalism on film titles.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010

In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then come interpolations to make this ascription more probable, and the prefixing of a title, then or subsequently, which states it as a fact.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

We had not yet shown ourselves, and Wabberley continued shouting, sometimes, "Ahoy!" sometimes my name, always prefixing the respectful appellative "master," and not calling me plain "Brent," as Hoggett had done.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert