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beseems

verb

present tense third-person singular of beseem, archaic

as in suffices

to be fitting or proper ordered his servants to deck the hall with such adornments as might beseem for the holidays

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Simply continuing your current savings strategy or leaving funds in a traditional savings account no longer suffices.

— Matt Richardson, CBS News, 30 July 2026
But why buy brand new items when an old pillowcase suffices?

— Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026

Definition of suffices

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But the arrest does little to change the fact that her brother is still gone.

— Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Those workers understand what a white-collar reader mostly does not, which is that the moment your knowledge leaves your hands is the moment your leverage leaves with it.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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And not every run will be a banger, of course; there’s plenty of randomness involved, as befits the genre.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
While Nolan often wrangles what seems like a cast of thousands, the look departs from the Old Hollywood vision of the sword-and-sandal epic, creating something equal parts majestic and strange, as befits a story peppered with fantastical elements.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026

Definition of befits

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The narrow waterway passing between Iran and Oman serves as the main route for shipping crude from oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait to the rest of the world.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
The climb up to Highlands, a Western North Carolina mountain town sitting at 4,118 feet above sea level, serves as a transition of sorts.

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2026

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