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
The word “logic” comes from the Greek term “logos” which is the root for our suffix -ology.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
The moniker is a play on the creature's cartoonishly wide-eyed face and is derived from a mashup of the words "Kermit" and the Greek suffix "-ops," which means face.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024
Exception 2.—A few words ending in e drop the e before a suffix beginning with a consonant: as, judge + ment = judgment; lodge + ment = lodgment; abridge + ment = abridgment.
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
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
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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
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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
Latin and Greek are mainly affixing in their method, with the emphasis heavily on suffixing.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
Languages in India, families of, 70. —— isolating, combinatory, and inflectional, 79. —— suffixing, prefixing, affixing, and infixing, 85.
From Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV Essays chiefly on the Science of Language by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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 Spear, Richard L.
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