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[pree-fiks, pree-fiks, pree-fiks] / ˈpri fɪks, ˈpri fɪks, priˈfɪks /
NOUN
an addition
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NOUN
a designation
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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

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

From Salon Apr. 30, 2026

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 un was a later addition, and eventually the final I on the old “untill” fell off.

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

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

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

Journalist Elizabeth Gibney notes an additional motivation for adding the new prefixes: to prevent unofficial ones, such as “hella” for 1027, from taking hold.

From Scientific American Dec. 12, 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

Mr Bijoor suggests a better strategy would have been to operate Air India separately for five years, focusing on improving service standards, while maintaining Vistara as a distinct brand with Air India prefixed to it.

From BBC Nov. 10, 2024

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 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

From it I edited the work, prefixing a short notice of the author, and verifying the references to the Fathers.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various




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