prefix

One number, with a 901 prefix from Shelby County, Tenn., jumped out, Sternin testified, because of the number of times that Harvey had contacted it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

That prefix would also have to remind the AI to obey the laws of physics with wording like: “gravity and inertia respected—mass has real weight, correct contact shadows, no floating props.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

The name, a play on the prefix in the region and Trump’s names, started as a joke.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

Anila told me that she had given all the girls saved by the midwives the prefix “Kosi” before their name, a homage to the Kosi river in Bihar.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024

NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

The Paris and Geneva families settled their dispute in 2018, agreeing to add prefixes or additional names in marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

She closely reads passages from their textbooks, breaks apart prefixes and suffixes and identifies root words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

“It is a very difficult word,” Haviv said, veering gracefully around the pileup of prefixes that Congress chose to describe the 250th anniversary of American independence — fast approaching on July 4, 2026.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

To boost comprehension, students learn about prefixes, root words and suffixes — for example that “bene” means good or “audi” means hear.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2022

Once he had swallowed a good portion of the English vocabulary, he began to taste the familiar ingredients, the Greek seasoning in the roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Basic Care has a large Amazon logo right at the top, Stone and Beam notes that its products are “exclusively on Amazon,” and Rivet’s product names are prefixed with “Amazon Brand.”

From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2021

Other Lamonts married descendants of the Plymouth Puritan William Bradford, Ned’s grandfather prefixed by nine “greats.”

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2018

His name is routinely prefixed with the words “superhuman athlete”—he’s the sort of person Jyri would want to model himself on.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2018

On a Mac, hidden files and folders are prefixed with "." which the operating system places before A in alphabetical order.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2016

When prefixed to the name of an office, ex- denotes that the person formerly held the office named: as, ex-mayor, the former mayor.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

The ubiquity of “Design” has rendered itself in many forms, prefixing and suffixing subjects including graphic, product, industrial, computer, systems, architecture, community, environments, molecules, and more.

From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2012

Ever since Hollywood started prefixing adaptations of the Bard's work with "William Shakespeare's", authorial provenance has inflicted some unsightly vandalism on film titles.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010

In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question.

From Time Magazine Archive

Socialism is advocated in so many different forms that it is difficult to deal with the term intelligently without prefixing a somewhat lengthy definition.

From Why I am opposed to socialism by Various

He himself would have given it the name of Sylvania, but the King insisted, on prefixing the name of the grantee.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School