suffice
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In this season of expectation, only one potential outcome will suffice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
In the meantime, the AI gowns and Easter-egg hunts will have to suffice.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
By the time I reached ten, I realized counting was not going to suffice.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
There's a six-word answer that suffices until this time next week - we might, but we don't know - although I might indulge you in some of the wildest suggestions a bit later on.
From BBC ● May 2, 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
‘Well told, my friend,’ he said, ‘but that is enough at this time. For the moment it suffices to know that the Ring passed to Frodo, your heir. Let him now speak!’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Is it remotely possible that any such explanation would have sufficed in previous eras?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
And for more than a generation it sufficed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
“School was OK, but I loved Wales,” would’ve sufficed.
From Salon ● May 27, 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
Without that quality, his other virtues would not have sufficed to attain the same effect.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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
But some men possess a similar power without making any special effort or peculiar preparations, their firm volition sufficing for the purpose.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
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