suffices

present tense third-person singular of suffice
as in serves
to be enough I was told I have to wear shoes—will thong sandals suffice?

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Recent Examples of suffices 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 But today, the Attention Economy no longer suffices. Rajiv Shesh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 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
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  • Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For Turkish designer Buket Hoscan Bazman, brass serves a similar narrative role.
    Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 7 Nov. 2025
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  • Manow does a bump of K on the table to relax while Clateman shows me a high-tech nicotine vape that displays music videos and also rates the intensity of your hits with a numerical score.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The point of Generative AI is the tech does the bulk of the work on its own.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
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  • And disappointingly, the commission somehow justified that this proposal satisfies the affordability pillar of state policy.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Waukesha County cheers key step in the process For Waukesha County, Boardman's statement satisfies officials' hope that state transportation leaders are at least acknowledging the importance of I-94 locally and are following the steps necessary to make a project happen at some point.
    Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Suffices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffices. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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