as in acceptability
the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately
the sufficiency of the portions is such that you will leave the restaurant with a full stomach but without doggie bags
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Recent Examples of sufficiency
The City Clerk is still required to review the petition and determine the sufficiency of the petition, as is dictated by Wisconsin statutes, the city wrote in its post.
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
But the designer explained in his letter that the seasonal campaign is more focused on the theme of dependency and the support of a community, dismissing self sufficiency.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
To determine the sufficiency of the evidence, the appellate judges identified the reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the circumstances proved.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Tsangari doles out information cagily, turning over narrative cards with calculated delay, a bare sufficiency that undercuts her world-building in favor of point-making; the just-enough story is also a just-so story.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
But the designer explained in his letter that the seasonal campaign is more focused on the theme of dependency and the support of a community, dismissing self sufficiency.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
To determine the sufficiency of the evidence, the appellate judges identified the reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the circumstances proved.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Tsangari doles out information cagily, turning over narrative cards with calculated delay, a bare sufficiency that undercuts her world-building in favor of point-making; the just-enough story is also a just-so story.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sufficiency
Noun
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The rate has been gradually dropping for decades, due to cigarette taxes, tobacco product price hikes, smoking bans, public education campaigns and changes in the social acceptability of lighting up in public.—
Mike Stobbe,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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People who feel othered often describe exhaustion from performing acceptability.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Quantum exposure cuts across data, supplier contracts, capital allocation, customer commitments, regulatory adequacy and board appetite.—
Maman Ibrahim,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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More than half of the regions NERC studied could face resource-adequacy problems in that window, a worsening outlook that the group partly attributes to data centers.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Even more goodness to check out!—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
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There’s more than one way to eat a burger, and thank goodness for that.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
9 June 2026
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“Sufficiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sufficiency. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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