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We have sufficient supplies.sufficient = adequate (enough)
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Is there sufficient cause for a search warrant?
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After about an hour, I find a stream, shallow but wide, and more than sufficient for my needs. (source)sufficient = adequate
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It was, however, sufficient to do him in. (source)sufficient = enough
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They met in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea, and so whenever anything happened there, even something terrible, it was like all of a sudden they were not large sedentary creatures, but the young and idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, (source)sufficient = adequate
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...the Sixers' forces proved sufficient to hold those ten locations and prevent any other gunters from getting inside (source)
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From the computer image, they knew the skeleton lay in a relatively confined area; a ditch around a two-meter square would be sufficient. (source)sufficient = adequate (enough)
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When it had cooled sufficiently, they both watched it a moment, waiting for the words. (source)sufficiently = adequately
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But this proved insufficient as more Hatters stepped forward, so she conjured her numberless reflections to her aid. (source)insufficient = inadequate (not enough)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Attending insufficiently to the diamond absolutes, among which must be counted the sufficiency of that which is absolutely imagined.† (source)insufficiently = inadequately (in a manner that does not provide enough)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficiently means not and reverses the meaning of sufficiently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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For if he should have Authority from his Letters, to make the members pay what he borroweth, he should have by consequence the Soveraignty of them; and therefore the grant were either voyd, as proceeding from Errour, commonly incident to humane Nature, and an unsufficient signe of the will of the Granter; or if it be avowed by him, then is the Representer Soveraign, and falleth not under the present question, which is onely of Bodies subordinate.† (source)unsufficient = not adequate (not enough)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse. (source)sufficient = enough
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But before the boys could sufficiently admire the car, Mama and Big Ma shooed us toward the church for the service. (source)sufficiently = adequately (enough)
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We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. (source)insufficient = inadequate (not enough)
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Her middle school gym teacher, who had once thought Mae insufficiently serious about the President's Physical Fitness Test, now seemed impressed.† (source)insufficiently = inadequately (in a manner that does not provide enough)
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Unnecessary Lawes are not good Lawes; but trapps for Mony: which where the right of Soveraign Power is acknowledged, are superfluous; and where it is not acknowledged, unsufficient to defend the People.† (source)unsufficient = not adequate (not enough)
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