Sufficient
adjective
As much as needed or necessary.
He didn't have sufficient money to buy a new car.
adjective
Competent or capable.
She is sufficient in handling the team.
adjective
As much as needed or necessary.
He didn't have sufficient money to buy a new car.
adjective
Competent or capable.
She is sufficient in handling the team.
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Quantity Focus
Used when stressing the quantity needed to fulfill a requirement or condition.
Do we have sufficient chairs for the meeting?
Pro Tip 2/3Conditional Success
Indicates the minimum needed for a task to be completed successfully.
There's sufficient evidence to start the trial.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
What counts as sufficient can vary depending on a person's judgment or context.
What's sufficient rest varies from person to person.
Pro Tip 1/3Quantity Focus
Used when stressing the quantity needed to fulfill a requirement or condition.
Do we have sufficient chairs for the meeting?
Pro Tip 2/3Conditional Success
Indicates the minimum needed for a task to be completed successfully.
There's sufficient evidence to start the trial.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
What counts as sufficient can vary depending on a person's judgment or context.
What's sufficient rest varies from person to person.
Pro Tip 1/3Quantity Focus
Used when stressing the quantity needed to fulfill a requirement or condition.
Do we have sufficient chairs for the meeting?
Pro Tip 2/3Conditional Success
Indicates the minimum needed for a task to be completed successfully.
There's sufficient evidence to start the trial.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
What counts as sufficient can vary depending on a person's judgment or context.
What's sufficient rest varies from person to person.
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What is leukemia? -...
the blood becomes depleted. The lack of red blood cells means that muscles don't get enough oxygen, the reduced number of platelets is not sufficient to repair wounds, and the dearth of functional white blood cells impairs the immune system, increasing the risk of infections. To restore the normal function of the blood, leukemic cells have to be eliminated.
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How to escape...
They're very important. I'm not here to argue against science and math. On the contrary, they're necessary but they're not sufficient. A real education has to give equal weight to the arts, the humanities, to physical education. An awful lot of kids, sorry, thank you --
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String theory - Brian...
imagine we look at a familiar object just a candle and a holder and imagine that we want to figure out what it is made of so we go on a journey deep inside the object and examine the constituents so deep inside we all know you go sufficiently far down you have
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BBC Earth's Best Of The...
half of all panda births result in them pandas almost always abandon one cub it's thought that they don't have sufficient milk or energy to care for two by removing one cub at birth and then switching throughout the day and night keepers are able to encourage
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Can Magnets Scramble...
this small bar of metal to wipe the memory off this laptop destroying my life's work the theory is that if you leave your laptop near a sufficiently big magnet it will erase or scramble everything on its hard drive to understand how this could happen we need
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Chimps have feelings and...
capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued. The detainer is required to bring the detainee in and give a legally sufficient reason for depriving him of his bodily liberty.
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A brief history of...
Early humans likely counted animals in a flock or members in a tribe using body parts or tally marks. But as the complexity of life increased, along with the number of things to count, these methods were no longer sufficient. So as they developed,
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How do schools of fish...
become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish
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Sleep is your superpower...
the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. Short sleep predicts all-cause mortality. And if increasing your risk for the development of cancer or even Alzheimer's disease were not sufficiently disquieting,
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Neglect in child-care...
subject to any relation the kds of this world often often hundreds of them stucked in one institution are not being treated by the insufficient uneducated stuff they're simply being stored and
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What is leukemia? -...
the blood becomes depleted. The lack of red blood cells means that muscles don't get enough oxygen, the reduced number of platelets is not sufficient to repair wounds, and the dearth of functional white blood cells impairs the immune system, increasing the risk of infections. To restore the normal function of the blood, leukemic cells have to be eliminated.
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How to escape...
They're very important. I'm not here to argue against science and math. On the contrary, they're necessary but they're not sufficient. A real education has to give equal weight to the arts, the humanities, to physical education. An awful lot of kids, sorry, thank you --
Video examples
String theory - Brian...
imagine we look at a familiar object just a candle and a holder and imagine that we want to figure out what it is made of so we go on a journey deep inside the object and examine the constituents so deep inside we all know you go sufficiently far down you have
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BBC Earth's Best Of The...
half of all panda births result in them pandas almost always abandon one cub it's thought that they don't have sufficient milk or energy to care for two by removing one cub at birth and then switching throughout the day and night keepers are able to encourage
Video examples
Can Magnets Scramble...
this small bar of metal to wipe the memory off this laptop destroying my life's work the theory is that if you leave your laptop near a sufficiently big magnet it will erase or scramble everything on its hard drive to understand how this could happen we need
Video examples
Chimps have feelings and...
capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will. A writ of habeus corpus is issued. The detainer is required to bring the detainee in and give a legally sufficient reason for depriving him of his bodily liberty.
Video examples
A brief history of...
Early humans likely counted animals in a flock or members in a tribe using body parts or tally marks. But as the complexity of life increased, along with the number of things to count, these methods were no longer sufficient. So as they developed,
Video examples
How do schools of fish...
become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish
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Sleep is your superpower...
the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. Short sleep predicts all-cause mortality. And if increasing your risk for the development of cancer or even Alzheimer's disease were not sufficiently disquieting,
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Neglect in child-care...
subject to any relation the kds of this world often often hundreds of them stucked in one institution are not being treated by the insufficient uneducated stuff they're simply being stored and
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Russell Crowe
Australian Actor
I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.
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Chelsea Clinton
American Celebrity
Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
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Francis Quarles
English Poet
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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James Madison
American President
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Marcel Proust
French Author
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Mike Cernovich
American Writer
I'm sufficiently complex that there's no one truth about me.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Russell Crowe
Australian Actor
I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.
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Chelsea Clinton
American Celebrity
Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
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Francis Quarles
English Poet
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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James Madison
American President
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Marcel Proust
French Author
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Mike Cernovich
American Writer
I'm sufficiently complex that there's no one truth about me.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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