prefix

One number, with a 901 prefix from Shelby County, Tenn., jumped out, Sternin testified, because of the number of times that Harvey had contacted it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

Police say 111 women have now made allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed, who added the Arabic "Al" prefix to his surname sometime in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

“Atto” is the scientific notation prefix that represents 10-18, which is a decimal point followed by 17 zeroes and a 1.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2023

Here the prefix in is for emphasis, as in words like incinerate, incoming and intense.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

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

Journalist Elizabeth Gibney notes an additional motivation for adding the new prefixes: to prevent unofficial ones, such as “hella” for 1027, from taking hold.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 12, 2022

The prefixes may help you remember: en means “in” or “within”; epi means “upon” or “close to”; pan means “all.” farther/further.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

Frequently, however, especially for an adjective of two or more syllables, the comparative is formed by prefixing more or less to the positive, and the superlative by prefixing most or least.

From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

Had Alberti designed what we now-202- call a plagiarism, what need was there to call attention to it by prefixing an introduction to the third book of a continuous treatise?

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds