- present tense form of suffer (3rd person singular).
suffers
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In a move reeking of desperation, Ramaswamy’s campaign ran a spot featuring Acton’s elderly mother, Donna Arthur, calling her daughter a “liar” and suggesting she suffers from severe mental illness.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Perhaps he should review the lesson of “Four O’Clock,” a third-season episode of “The Twilight Zone” in which a political fanatic denounces people he considers evil and suffers a comeuppance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Imagine an investor whose mutual fund gains in paper value in one year but suffers actual losses in year two.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The FIA says that some track limits count as a strike towards the three maximum allowed and some don't, such as when a driver is pushed off track, or suffers an obvious loss of control.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
An illustration which isn’t quite so vanilla: Assume a medical clinic tests blood for a certain disease from which approximately one person in a hundred suffers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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