suffice
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That should suffice to shore up the Fed’s independence, although Congress might elect to follow the comptroller-general model, requiring either impeachment for cause or a joint resolution for removal of governors and the chairman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In this season of expectation, only one potential outcome will suffice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Experts, however, advise moderation — saying that regular old water and a balanced diet generally suffice against a backdrop of wellness shortcuts and health hacks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
In the meantime, the AI gowns and Easter-egg hunts will have to suffice.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
The hood did not suffice against that wind, and I wore a facial mask to protect my nose and left cheek.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The percentage of Yuka users who pay for premium is tiny but that suffices because the total number of users is so enormous, she adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But military experts say that domestic production now suffices to ensure the front line wouldn’t imminently collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
I could go on, but it suffices to say that “The Osbournes” sits near the root system of celebreality’s Tree of Life, for richer or poorer.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
It’s not quite as effective when used without misoprostol, but it suffices as a backup option.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024
A very small initial nonuniformity suffices to produce substantial condensations of matter later on.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Count us among those who think the red card was excessive; a yellow card would have sufficed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
And for more than a generation it sufficed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
“School was OK, but I loved Wales,” would’ve sufficed.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
This simple conversion also sufficed to activate thousands of genes associated with an inflammatory gene program that allows neutrophils to combat invading bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
Equations occasionally crept into his argument, but in most cases words would have sufficed.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
It was the more plentiful elements that were usually found first, relatively simple experiments sufficing to confirm their existence.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
That is what the grant of Article 3 life tenure offers a man: the ability to do precisely what he decides to do, with no amount of political pressure sufficing to change that.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2021
Tied up in the respect and ubiquity afforded to these men is the mononym, or a single word sufficing for a person’s whole name.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020
Their literary wars are more like the battles of boys in the woods, waged wholly in imaginary terms, with cries of “I got you!” sufficing to declare victory.
From Slate ● May 28, 2015
Fines were occasionally imposed for non-attendance at church; that does not seem to have been the rule, moral suasion apparently sufficing to meet most requirements.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott
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