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 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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  • Regis University, which serves about 2,700 students, was able to confirm to Fortune that Erika Kirk was a student there from fall 2007 through the end of fall 2009, and Lindsey Halligan did graduate from the school in 2011, but offered no further comment.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Another serves as the political director for a union and voted on the county's contract with that union.
    Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • He's involved in everything the Journal Sentinel does online — both our website and our social media platforms, like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • What time does 'Life of a Showgirl' drop?
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • As part of a plea agreement, prosecution was deferred on an additional charge for menacing so long as White commits no new violations over the next two years and satisfies a number of conditions, including issuing a public apology to the victim, Adam Weatherford.
    Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Having made her name with The Best Man, Scary Movie, and Ally McBeal, this new, different note satisfies Hall’s longtime dream of working with Anderson.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Suffices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffices. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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