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sufficient

[suh-fish-uhnt] / səˈfɪʃ ənt /


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Unified staff, the charter “failed to meet or make sufficient progress toward meeting standards that provide a benefit to the pupils.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The biggest criticism of the new cars this year has been the engines were energy starved because it was too difficult to recover sufficient energy around a lap to meet the maximum allowance.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

But those quotas would be far from sufficient and risk being lopsided, warned Simon Michel, head of medical technology company Ypsomed, which makes injection systems for diabetes.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

“If they can’t get sufficient investment from the private sector to maximize AI development and deployment, then they will consider taking stakes in some subset of it,” Haines told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Perhaps age alone would have been sufficient to propel Washington down the road from Philadelphia to Mount Vernon one last time.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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