as in to suffice
to be fitting or proper spoke politely of the deceased, as befitted the occasion

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Recent Examples of befit That four-bedroom had undergone a beachy renovation, befitting of its locale on Belvedere Island. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 July 2025 Jamil Zaki’s public persona was people pleasing and positive, as befitted a Stanford psychology professor and researcher of social connection, empathy, and trust. Stav Ziv, CNBC, 24 June 2025 As befitting a company that measures its market cap in trillion-dollar increments ($3.1 trillion as of June 2), Apple’s bar for success is high. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 June 2025 Advertisement What Fellowes can’t countenance are privileged people who lack the magnanimity befitting their rank and, most of all, servants who are insufficiently grateful to their benevolent employers. Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for befit
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  • Quarterly price adjustments will no longer suffice, particularly in this era of unpredictable and sudden tariff changes and dynamic pricing services.
    Rochelle Thielen, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Instead of turning seven surrounding acres into a private golf course, for example, a run-of-the-mill, subsurface stormwater tank would have sufficed to meet stipulations that new developments cannot intensify flooding on neighboring properties.
    Denise Hruby Updated July 13, Miami Herald, 13 July 2025
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  • There’s a town and community to fit most people’s needs, as many of California’s 39,663,800 residents will tell you.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025
  • The elevated mini dress is a chill, one-and-done staple for the summer, with more than one way to go about it to fit it into your own personal style lexicon: think elegant shift dresses, easy linens, lacy slips, and more sporty numbers.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 July 2025
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  • Malik served as a communications, outreach, policy, and constituent services intern at Mamdani's state Assembly office during the summer of 2024.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2025
  • Many of the rooms surround the secret garden, where a memorable breakfast is served to guests each morning under the fragrant shade of orange and lemon trees.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 15 July 2025
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  • The Great Lakes freighter sank — one of the largest on Lake Superior ever to do so — during a violent November storm in 1975 while carrying Minnesota ore.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 23 July 2025
  • The audience knows more about Jane than Xavier does.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 July 2025
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  • This transition can unlock a range of operational and commercial advantages uniquely suited to commercial fleets.
    Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Davis is a magnetic front man, and the Roadhouse Band is an intoxicatingly raucous live outfit, but the constraints of the setup suited his new material, which is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 July 2025

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“Befit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befit. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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