suffice
verb (used without object)
to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
has sufficed
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present perfectof suffice (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Before he returns to London this time, Sir Walter will know whether his patient trotting back & forth has sufficed to keep open the way toward eventual direct three-way collaboration.
From Time Magazine Archive
I accoutred myself thus on landing, at the urgent advice of a friend, though my good cudgel—which has sufficed for all my needs hitherto—is more to my mind, besides being useful as a mountain staff.
From The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
This superficial criticism is certainly better than no criticism at all, and has sufficed to give those who have applied it the consciousness of incontestable superiority.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
The contingency alluded to in the last article has sufficed to provide some writers with an excuse for the measure destroying the Chantries.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert
A hundred years has sufficed to promulgate ideas of the sacredness of private property that place its preservation and protection among the chief duties of man.
From The American Empire by Scott Nearing
