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Register.si spokesperson Klara Herman said 44,000 web addresses with the .si suffix had been registered in September, compared to less than 2,000 in August - an increase of more than 2,100%.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It so happens that .si is the top-level suffix for Slovenia's internet domain names registry, which both locals and foreigners can request.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Others are just using the suffix as a handy meme, far removed from its original context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The word “logic” comes from the Greek term “logos” which is the root for our suffix -ology.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 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 Edward Sapir
The Semitic languages, for instance, are prefixing, suffixing, and symbolic at one and the same time.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
The affixing languages would naturally subdivide themselves into such as are prevailingly prefixing, like Bantu or Tlingit, and such as are mainly or entirely suffixing, like Eskimo or Algonkin or Latin.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
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