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suffice

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


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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 this season of expectation, only one potential outcome will suffice.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

“But suffice it to say, stabilizing the business and improving profitability is where we’re focused right now.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Koffi twisted her mouth to form a half grimace she hoped would suffice.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

“For most of us, the signature suffices, but I would hate to disappoint a new brother-in-arms. Welcome to the Second Sons, Lord Tyrion.”

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

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

He said their occupation of the guardhouse would have sufficed in causing disruption and the damage they caused was "gratuitous" and for "performance purposes only".

From BBC Mar. 4, 2026

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

For example, typhus was initially transmitted between rats by rat fleas, which sufficed for a while to transfer typhus from rats to humans.

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

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

Where can I find words sufficing to declare unto you, and to make you wholly to know, my grievous sorrow?

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan




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