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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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Arabesque serves Middle Eastern cuisine, while Il Frantoio dishes up Italian.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Mar. 2026
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Qin, who also serves as the director of the bamboo center, said the team conducted more than 100 experiments guided by airworthiness standards.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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And a cougar attacks in a very different way than a bear does.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Of course, gold mining stocks also carry risks that physical gold does not, including operational costs, management decisions and broader stock market volatility.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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But the Department of Health Care Services also commissioned one additional option to increase the capacity for initial training, hiring UCSD to create ASCEND, a free and self-paced online program that satisfies the requirement.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Redlands school officials said the suspension of privileges will remain in place until a student satisfies certain conditions, such as attending a session of Saturday school or performing four hours of community service.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Suffices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffices. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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