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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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

She dissected the word “intermolecular,” and its prefix, “inter,” connecting it to other words with that same prefix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

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

The prefix od- used in the second halfmonth is a reversive, giving a contrary meaning, so that Odgeteny might be translated as “undarkness.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The conference handed out call-letter prefixes — C for Canada, X for Mexico, F for France, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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

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

His name is routinely prefixed with the words “superhuman athlete”—he’s the sort of person Jyri would want to model himself on.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2018

On a Mac, hidden files and folders are prefixed with "." which the operating system places before A in alphabetical order.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2016

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

In like manner, the causative conjugation is formed from the simple one by prefixing h in Hebrew, but by prefixing s in both Assyrio-Babylonian and Egyptian.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Footnote 1: The author uses Skshetuski, the family name of his hero, oftener than Yan, his Christian name, prefixing Pan = Mr. in both cases.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz