- present tense form of suffer (3rd person singular).
suffers
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He remains in a 9-by-6-foot cell at the Rodeo I prison near Caracas, where his family says he has lost 25 pounds and suffers from unaddressed cardiac issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Even though the community suffers from extensive poverty due in part to discrimination and the few resources refugees from a war-torn country are able to marshal, it has also produced a large number of entrepreneurs.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Imagine an investor whose mutual fund gains in paper value in one year but suffers actual losses in year two.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The FIA says that some track limits count as a strike towards the three maximum allowed and some don't, such as when a driver is pushed off track, or suffers an obvious loss of control.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Although Mother has one now, and she still suffers.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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