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sufficiently

ADVERB
to one's satisfaction
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Yet Roberts looked at this situation and saw not that Section 5 continued to work, but that things had changed sufficiently that it was no longer needed.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta, and breast milk contains only small amounts.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

"Further detailed analyses are necessary to determine whether the DNA extracted is sufficiently preserved," says Caramelli, who is also President of the University Museum System.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

A flu pandemic occurs when the strain shifts, rather than drifts, sufficiently that humans do not have any natural immunity to it.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

This discovery presented fundamental difficulties for any account of how the compass worked, but it also raised the exciting possibility that variation might be sufficiently regular for it to be used to measure longitude.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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