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Recent Examples of suffices
But why buy brand new items when an old pillowcase suffices?
—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
14 May 2026
That rationale for military power no longer suffices.
—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
These techniques create synergy capable of overcoming even sophisticated cyber defenses, but usually internet access suffices for these cyber actors to get the job done.
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Jim Richberg,
Forbes.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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
No single material suffices to replicate that distinctive human texture.
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Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
16 Dec. 2025
And, if identity suffices in defining the art work, what else about it is overlooked along that way?
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Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
Creating a Partiful event or even texting the group suffices.
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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
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
14 May 2026
That rationale for military power no longer suffices.
—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
These techniques create synergy capable of overcoming even sophisticated cyber defenses, but usually internet access suffices for these cyber actors to get the job done.
—
Jim Richberg,
Forbes.com,
26 Feb. 2026
This is not a moment where simply modeling democratic and humanitarian principles by our own behavior suffices.
—
Ernesto Burden,
Washington Post,
9 Feb. 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
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Each one serves the surrounding community, and each one adds to the state's emergency-response capacity.
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The Chicago Jewish Day School, a multi-denominational school that serves junior kindergarten through eighth grade, also reported rising enrollment, from 220 students in the 2024-2024 school year to 254 for the coming year.
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This cozy space does a lot with a little, offering bar seating, booths for larger parties and a few tables for smaller groups.
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So does Milot Kiros, the DSA Congressional candidate who won in Colorado on Tuesday.
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That agreement should spell out the settlement amount, the payment deadline and provide explicit confirmation that the payment satisfies the debt in full.
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By letting companies digitally tag and incorporate this general repository by reference, the SEC satisfies their legal cautionary obligations.
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“Suffices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffices. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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