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 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.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The local office of the OIJ in Quepos, which serves the central Pacific area of the country and is in the area where Miller Gardner died, told CNN on Friday that it was asked to expand its investigation into the case.
    Djenane Villanueva, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • The only other shmup that looked this good on the Mega Drive was probably Ex-Ranza, known as Ranger-X abroad, but even that didn’t move at the pace Earthion does.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to higher rates and fewer terms, Rocket also charges closing costs, which Third Federal does not.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • Nothing satisfies a comfort food craving like a pan of pasta.
    Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Unfortunately, this cycle rarely satisfies either partner.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Suffices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffices. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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