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Recent Examples of suffices
This is not a moment where simply modeling democratic and humanitarian principles by our own behavior suffices.
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Ernesto Burden, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
For some, the lower-tier MacBook Air suffices.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
No single material suffices to replicate that distinctive human texture.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
And, if identity suffices in defining the art work, what else about it is overlooked along that way?
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Creating a Partiful event or even texting the group suffices.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2025
The complete sentence, housed in a single Arabic word, أحبّك, suffices when the world closes in and there is no room for longer declarations, for the leisure of language and its constructions.
—Nima Hasan
august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Ernesto Burden, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
For some, the lower-tier MacBook Air suffices.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
No single material suffices to replicate that distinctive human texture.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
And, if identity suffices in defining the art work, what else about it is overlooked along that way?
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Creating a Partiful event or even texting the group suffices.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2025
The complete sentence, housed in a single Arabic word, أحبّك, suffices when the world closes in and there is no room for longer declarations, for the leisure of language and its constructions.
—Nima Hasan
august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffices
Verb
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The restaurant also serves lunch specials daily, including platters with a choice of protein (chicken, salmon or, naturally, steak) with rice or quinoa and a side salad.—
Connie Ogle
April 9,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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Crouch serves as creator, showrunner, writer and executive producer, with additional executive producers including Matt Tolmach, Richard Lederer and Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, who co-wrote all episodes of Season 2.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbors are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong does.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2026
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Like really bad attitude, but also does some unspeakably bad things in this story.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Two decades on, Christopher Nolan's cinematic magic trick still satisfies.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Apr. 2026
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For those partial to a glaze, a drizzle of maple syrup at the end satisfies anyone who loves a sweet finish.—
Maggie Meyer Glisan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Suffices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffices. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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