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Recent Examples of suffice
However, shirts and pants only need enough space so they can be folded—typically around 16 inches, so 18-inch-wide shelves in the middle of the small closet will suffice.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 May 2026
Brown insisted that the mechanism built into the new system, requiring local schools to adopt plans to improve outcomes, bolstered by broad state measures of accountability, would suffice.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
But why buy brand new items when an old pillowcase suffices?
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
That rationale for military power no longer suffices.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 May 2026
Brown insisted that the mechanism built into the new system, requiring local schools to adopt plans to improve outcomes, bolstered by broad state measures of accountability, would suffice.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
But why buy brand new items when an old pillowcase suffices?
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
That rationale for military power no longer suffices.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
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Rather than attacking all rapidly growing cells, as chemotherapy does, the drug targets a key cancer-driving pathway known as KRAS, which is involved in more than 90% of pancreatic tumors.—
Luzdelia Caballero,
CBS News,
5 June 2026
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Ionic liquids are essentially salts that stay in liquid form even in the vacuum of space, which very few materials can do.—
Omar Kardoudi
June 05,
New Atlas,
5 June 2026
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For the last seven years, McNealy has served as the historic content expert for the Civil Rights Institute while also working as the department chair of history at Arthur Harold Parker High School and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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Bradley's killer, Eugene McCollom, pleaded guilty years ago and is serving a life sentence.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2026
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“Suffice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffice. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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