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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

Instead, it suggests, semiannual and annual reports should suffice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

If you come upon a sleeping three-toed sloth in the wild, two or three nudges should suffice to awaken it; it will then look sleepily in every direction but yours.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

“For most of us, the signature suffices, but I would hate to disappoint a new brother-in-arms. Welcome to the Second Sons, Lord Tyrion.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Count us among those who think the red card was excessive; a yellow card would have sufficed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

He said their occupation of the guardhouse would have sufficed in causing disruption and the damage they caused was "gratuitous" and for "performance purposes only".

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

“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

Whoa there, slow down lady, a simple “it’s inappropriate” would have sufficed.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

Immediately upon removal from the trap, each vole was placed in a white flannel sack, one sack sufficing for several voles when necessary.

From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by E. W. Jameson