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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

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

EasyGroup and its owner Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou have a long history of taking legal action against businesses who use the prefix "easy" in their name.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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

“We’re not really sure that we’re measuring anything at that scale. But it is better to have the scale balanced and the prefixes relate to each other in some way that is consistent,” she says.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 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

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

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2017

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

He himself would have given it the name of Sylvania, but the King insisted, on prefixing the name of the grantee.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Its systematic name is formed by replacing the last syllable of the electro-negative element by ide and prefixing the name of the other element.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various