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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 name, a play on the prefix in the region and Trump’s names, started as a joke.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

Mohamed added the Arabic "Al" prefix to his surname some time in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024

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 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

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

Now, the booming growth of the data sphere has prompted the governors of the metric system to agree on new prefixes beyond that magnitude, to describe the outrageously big and small.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 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

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

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

“Each shower is a prefixed temperature!” he says incredulously, his Portuguese accent thickening slightly as the excitement overtakes him.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014

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

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

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