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suffice

[suh-fahys, -fahyz] / səˈfaɪs, -ˈfaɪz /


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But in the document, the EU admits the "existing rules do not suffice", since there is no "outright ban on common problematic features".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The assistant coaching job will have to suffice.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

That might be a little heavy-handed when a simple talking-to, or a vote-whipping operation that’s more on top of things, could suffice.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

It tells customers: "What you see is what you pay. We do not accept tips, your kind words and return visits will suffice."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

No ordinary clasp would suffice for such a weight, so the greatcloak was held in place by a matched pair of miniature lionesses crouching on his shoulders, as if poised to spring.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

Paczkowski said you don’t need to be a good dancer to participate – a slightly bent one knee at the right beat suffices.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

This quick tour through Africa’s food staples suffices to show that some of them traveled a long way from their points of origin, both inside and outside Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Is it remotely possible that any such explanation would have sufficed in previous eras?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

Instead, it sufficed that they possess an "inner beard," the strength and insight that grows within a man and is represented, but not necessarily embodied, by the beard that grows on his surface.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 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

"A tin of paint and a tin of WD40 would have sufficed - now they're saying it costs too much for upkeep."

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

Without that quality, his other virtues would not have sufficed to attain the same effect.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

The herpetic vesicles leave obstinate and painful ulcers behind them, which refuse to heal, and which worry the patient frightfully, the merest breath of air upon them sufficing to produce agonizing darts of neuralgic pain.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie




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