suffice

Goldstein’s defense team said prison time wasn’t appropriate, arguing that a lengthy period of probation and restitution obligations would suffice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Experts, however, advise moderation — saying that regular old water and a balanced diet generally suffice against a backdrop of wellness shortcuts and health hacks.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Instead, it suggests, semiannual and annual reports should suffice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Analysts say, however, that such splits will not suffice to derail the negotiating process.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

The explanation of how the tricks are worked is too complicated to explain in detail here, and two fairly elementary examples should suffice.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The percentage of Yuka users who pay for premium is tiny but that suffices because the total number of users is so enormous, she adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

But military experts say that domestic production now suffices to ensure the front line wouldn’t imminently collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

I could go on, but it suffices to say that “The Osbournes” sits near the root system of celebreality’s Tree of Life, for richer or poorer.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

It’s not quite as effective when used without misoprostol, but it suffices as a backup option.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024

It suffices to know that they appear time and time again across the centuries.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Is it remotely possible that any such explanation would have sufficed in previous eras?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

The defensive highlights sufficed against the struggling Raiders, a team with future Hall of Famer Tom Brady now on the ownership roster but, unfortunately for coach Antonio Pierce, not playing quarterback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024

Instead, it sufficed that they possess an "inner beard," the strength and insight that grows within a man and is represented, but not necessarily embodied, by the beard that grows on his surface.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2024

This simple conversion also sufficed to activate thousands of genes associated with an inflammatory gene program that allows neutrophils to combat invading bacteria.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It was the more plentiful elements that were usually found first, relatively simple experiments sufficing to confirm their existence.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021

That is what the grant of Article 3 life tenure offers a man: the ability to do precisely what he decides to do, with no amount of political pressure sufficing to change that.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2021

Tied up in the respect and ubiquity afforded to these men is the mononym, or a single word sufficing for a person’s whole name.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020

Their literary wars are more like the battles of boys in the woods, waged wholly in imaginary terms, with cries of “I got you!” sufficing to declare victory.

From Slate ● May 28, 2015

Suffi′cient, sufficing: enough: equal to any end or purpose: competent.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various