fulfills

variants or fulfils
present tense third-person singular of fulfill

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fulfills Yamazaki discussed the film and why bringing one of his favorite kaiju, King Ghidorah, to the big screen in this installment fulfills a childhood dream. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026 The payment fulfills a key condition attached to the royal pardon. — ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026 The actress told The Hollywood Reporter playing the lead role fulfills a dream. — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2026 Securing public money for them raises issues over church-state separation but fulfills a long-standing goal for Christian conservatives, who lobbied for this funding. — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026 The need for speed is erotic, and the car both represents and fulfills this desire. — Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026 Ashley Gearhardt, who studies and treats food addiction at the University of Michigan, points out that social media fulfills our base need for socialization in the same way that ultraprocessed products fulfill our need for food. — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Council members discussed how to balance the nonprofit’s need for a long-term agreement to attract donors with the city’s need to ensure the building remains in use and the organization fulfills its obligations. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026 My heart is not in it, my kids are my life, my work supports us and fulfills me, along with hobbies. — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fulfills
Verb
  • Chifeng facility holds Bureau Veritas ISO certifications, satisfies RFNBO and ISCC standards, and produces 320,000 tons of green ammonia annually.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The off-kilter tale of a brave fox leading the fight against a comically noxious group of farmers satisfies like the grand victory feast at Badger’s (Bill Murray) table.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Artistically and emotionally, Fatherland accomplishes more in its 82-minute runtime than any two-hour-plus movie released this year.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Seattle accomplishes this by masterfully disguising defensive assignments before the snap, which can force Mahomes to diagnose where to go with the football only after dropping back.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • This isn’t to claim that a PEDF-boost keeps people younger, at least not without a lot more research.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The three-part 40mm drivers deliver fantastic audio by combining highs, mids, and lows to create an immersive soundscape that keeps you engaged and attentive.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The company now performs in a basement and is equipping an additional bomb shelter.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Among them was her friend Olivia Rodrigo, who booked Johanningmeier, who performs as Devon Again, for an early-day slot.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The board noted that further operational updates will follow once the committee completes its assessment.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2026
  • An agent that pauses appropriately may deliver more business value than one that completes more tasks while creating expensive exceptions.
    — Lloyd Marino, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • So fill a surface with words, more words and larger words than are necessary; fill a surface with something—anything—that achieves a minimal degree of individuation as well as commercial persuasion.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The five-phase program will begin with initial criticality, the point at which a reactor achieves a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As the Sun meets retrograde Mercury, a familiar daily frustration could reveal the assumption underneath it.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2026
  • This includes establishing how the site meets the relevant selection criteria, documenting its authenticity and integrity, outlining the measures in place to protect it, and presenting a management framework.
    — Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • This suspect returns back to his car, retrieves his handgun, walks back over to the victim, who’s trying to crawl away with her life, and executes her.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The aircraft executes anti-surface warfare (ASuW) through elegant communications and data link systems.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

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“Fulfills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fulfills. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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