suffice

as in to do
to be enough I was told I have to wear shoes—will thong sandals suffice?

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Recent Examples of suffice Typically, speeds of 100 to 500 Mbps suffice for streaming, gaming and working from home. Kara McGinley, USA Today, 11 June 2025 Disney argued that the floor price would suffice as the final price, while Comcast argued that Hulu’s value was higher, and that Disney should pay it an additional $5 billion. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025 My highest and lowest weights never varied by more than 0.6 pounds across all of them—that means getting one of the cheaper models will suffice. Christopher Null, Wired News, 4 June 2025 In the absence of a true 3D Mario game that's ready for the Switch 2 launch, the whimsical exploration on display here will more than suffice. ArsTechnica, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for suffice
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  • The way to do it is with judicious use of strong contrast colours, and that’s exactly what Nike has done here, with those pinks, blues and reds underneath the armpits and down the side of the shorts.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Accor, which owns the Orient Express brand with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, says a lot of it has to do with the training of its staff and the design, for which award-winning artist and architect Hugo Toro made bespoke Art Deco-era pieces constructed to mirror the group’s train.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 June 2025
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  • The tune served as the second official promotional cut from A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay’s sophomore album.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Featuring country-style sausage, fluffy eggs, crispy Bo-Rounds, melty Monterey Jack cheese, and Southern-style sausage gravy, the Bo-Rito is a full-size breakfast wrapped in a warm flour tortilla and served with a side of Texas Pete hot sauce.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 June 2025

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