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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

It added: "For now, suffice it to say that we are devastated at the loss of one of cycling's good guys."

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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

In the meantime, the AI gowns and Easter-egg hunts will have to suffice.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

“Lomas Longstrider saw the walls of Qarth. His books suffice for me. I have gone as far east as I intend to go.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

There's a six-word answer that suffices until this time next week - we might, but we don't know - although I might indulge you in some of the wildest suggestions a bit later on.

From BBC ● May 2, 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

Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

The defensive highlights sufficed against the struggling Raiders, a team with future Hall of Famer Tom Brady now on the ownership roster but, unfortunately for coach Antonio Pierce, not playing quarterback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024

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

There was nothing to sit upon in the shed but upended dough buckets, but they sufficed.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

There are no valves in the veins of the neck, where there is no necessity for such a protective mechanism, gravity sufficing to drain the venous blood from the cranial cavity.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield


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