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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

Police say 111 women have now made allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed, who added the Arabic "Al" prefix to his surname sometime in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

She dissected the word “intermolecular,” and its prefix, “inter,” connecting it to other words with that same prefix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

The human rights center disclosed in its 2019 report that it used the federally assigned prefix “RPN-” for “repatriate” to plug information into free flight-tracking websites and obtain a plane’s tail number and ownership.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

The prefix od- used in the second halfmonth is a reversive, giving a contrary meaning, so that Odgeteny might be translated as “undarkness.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The conference handed out call-letter prefixes — C for Canada, X for Mexico, F for France, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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

The prefixes may help you remember: en means “in” or “within”; epi means “upon” or “close to”; pan means “all.” farther/further.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

But the 26-year-old American does not take too kindly to the words 'self-proclaimed' being prefixed to her 'Greatest Woman of All Time' alias.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022

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

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

He next published five more Satires, prefixing to each a short preface, unfolding the writer's design.

From Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by Gierlow, John

Then come interpolations to make this ascription more probable, and the prefixing of a title, then or subsequently, which states it as a fact.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various