sufficient
adjective
adequate for the purpose; enough.
sufficiently
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a word derived from
sufficient.
Example Sentences
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“The district has not sufficiently adjusted staffing and facilities use in response to declining enrollment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ultimately finished behind Bearman and was unable to make the changing conditions work sufficiently to threaten the points.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The jobs data should be sufficiently solid to “keep an October rate hike in play,” Knightley said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
If gravity became sufficiently strong at those scales and enough energy were concentrated into a tiny enough region, spacetime could theoretically fold in on itself and produce a quantum black hole.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Gilmanton was a small farming village in New Hampshire’s lake country, sufficiently remote that its residents did not have access to a daily newspaper and rarely heard the shriek of train whistles.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
