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It so happens that .si is the top-level suffix for Slovenia's internet domain names registry, which both locals and foreigners can request.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

PS: The Nightshade suffix refers to an exterior trim grade that bundles together the blacked-out grille, badging, 20-inch wheels, mirror caps, door handles, roof pillars and lower rear bumper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

For those of you who did not grow up in Yiddish-infused households, let me briefly explain: the suffix -eleh is a diminutive term of affection.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

And because Jefferson's original moniker was spelled as Megalonyx, any other subsequent spellings of the name, like some that utilize the -onix suffix, are incorrect.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024

NOTE.—The suffix -ac is found only in Latin derivatives of Greek origin.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

And while “-boy” and “-girl” are both common gendered suffixes used across comic history, the girls have appeared more frequently in cinematic adaptations.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

The suffixes “ist” and “ism,” as I’ve said before in these pages, assume conscious belief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

"For those who want .ai suffixes, I'm seeing sales in the low five-figures, and sometimes in the six figures," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

NOTE.—These suffixes are found only in Latin words of Greek origin.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

Tamar-kali — a Biblical name suffixed with the Sanskrit word for “black one” — hails from New York, but she’s quick to acknowledge her ancestry of enslaved Africans in the American South.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2020

In neighboring states, and in some tribal areas, the “holou” is suffixed with bandar, monkey.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2018

“Every Sculpture Needs a Trapdoor” doubles down: A mishmash of ecru plates is impaled by a cylinder, then suffixed with a photocopied page from an essay on Sandback by the artist Andrea Fraser.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2017

Albeit suffixed by "why isn't this on BBC3?"

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2013

Finally, in its suffixed form woid-o, it became the Sanskrit word veda.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Of course, the extraordinary four-decade-old scandal — which sparked the media’s penchant for suffixing every scandal with “gate” — stays with us because of its lasting political effects and lessons for the country.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2015

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

The sentence is formed by suffixing to the word expressive of the main idea a number of others, more or less altered, expressing the relations.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

The affixing languages would naturally subdivide themselves into such as are prevailingly prefixing, like Bantu or Tlingit, and such as are mainly or entirely suffixing, like Eskimo or Algonkin or Latin.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

The first is by suffixing ta to the root of a verb ; e.g., agueta is the preterit of the verb ague,uru 'to offer.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear