suitable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- presuitable adjective
- presuitably adverb
- suitability noun
- suitableness noun
- suitably adverb
Etymology
Origin of suitable
Example Sentences
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Before this approach can be applied in medicine, additional work will be needed to package these nanodoses into oral capsules suitable for pharmaceutical use.
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Despite improvements in identifying suitable cancer antigens, these vaccines often fail to perform as hoped.
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Finding no engineering jobs he considered suitable in the Philippines, he began training as a pilot for Philippine Airlines.
According to Crocker, signs of this mismatch appeared nearly two decades ago, but there were no suitable mathematical tools to fully explain what was happening.
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“More suitable than what I can do for you, dashing off on a railcar toward peril at the drop of a hat.”
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