suffix
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In a rare move, he dropped the Russian "-ov" suffix from his own surname back in 2007.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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
It comes from the Welsh pwdu, meaning to sulk, which itself originated with the English word pout, combined with the Welsh verb-forming suffix -u.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
The word “logic” comes from the Greek term “logos” which is the root for our suffix -ology.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
NOTE.—The suffix -age is found only in French-Latin derivatives.
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 words of French-Latin 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
His answers are always suffixed with an awkward "... but I don't know", and he describes the popularity of the XX and James Blake as the rise of "groovy music" .
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011
Finally, in its suffixed form woid-o, it became the Sanskrit word veda.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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 preterit of the second permissive is formed by suffixing ritomo to the preterit indicative; e.g., agueta ritomo 'although he had offered it.'
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.
His colleague, Dr. Thomas Savage, and Professor Jeffries Wyman called the new animal by the old name of gorilla, suffixing it to the "Troglodytes" which Geoffrey de Saint-Hilaire, reviving Linnaeus, had proposed in 1812.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
It is left to the speaker to choose whether he designates the person, either by prefixing the personal pronoun or suffixing the possessive.
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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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