as in adequate
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Recent Examples of sufficient
To mitigate this risk, family offices should maintain a balanced portfolio with liquid assets and sufficient cash reserves to cover unforeseen capital needs.
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Dj Van Keuren, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Power banks are essential on long-haul flights, for business travelers, and for anyone relying on mobile devices, since most airports lack sufficient charging stations, Zhang told CNN.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
The company believes its existing cash reserves are sufficient to meet its working capital and capital expenditure needs over the next 12 months.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2025
The threshold for Vitamin D deficiency is also based mostly on research involving Europeans and North Americans, leading to the claim that ninety per cent of Indians lack sufficient Vitamin D, despite the subcontinent’s abundant sunlight.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Dj Van Keuren, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Power banks are essential on long-haul flights, for business travelers, and for anyone relying on mobile devices, since most airports lack sufficient charging stations, Zhang told CNN.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
The company believes its existing cash reserves are sufficient to meet its working capital and capital expenditure needs over the next 12 months.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2025
The threshold for Vitamin D deficiency is also based mostly on research involving Europeans and North Americans, leading to the claim that ninety per cent of Indians lack sufficient Vitamin D, despite the subcontinent’s abundant sunlight.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sufficient
Adjective
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At this range, a 1 m object maps into 3-4 camera pixels, adequate for recognition and range estimation.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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As our predecessors became terrestrial and moved to dry, hot environments, salt became scarcer, and the craving for sodium likely developed as a survival mechanism to ensure adequate intake.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That would give it around 240 miles of range in the real world, which is reasonable.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The plaintiffs’ argument broadens the scope of EPCA beyond reasonable bounds, District Judge Ronnie Abrams wrote in the court’s opinion.—
Akielly Hu,
Wired News,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Implement clear usage policies specifying acceptable applications.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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But many Republicans still back Ukraine, and have been skeptical about Putin agreeing to an acceptable deal.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The procedure was performed via minimal access and the result was satisfactory.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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His messages online sound all too typical of the brash and bratty computer techies who seem to think insults are satisfactory entertainment for their followers.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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From the point of view of Paul, Weiss, having to strike this arrangement wasn’t pleasant, but the price was tolerable.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2025
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Analysts expect the pill to be as effective, safe and tolerable to take as Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide – the active ingredient in its popular but costly weight loss injection Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2025
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The Seagate Expansion desktop hard drive stores a ridiculous 28 terabytes of data inside its relatively small footprint, with decent speed for a drive of this type and simple setup on both Windows and iOS machines.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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His character is a foreman, a father, a friend — just a decent, salt-of-the-earth dude, albeit one with a Costco-sized body count from his distant past.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Sufficient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sufficient. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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