How to Use sufficiency in a Sentence

sufficiency

noun
  • Their goal is to help struggling women turn their lives around and achieve self-sufficiency.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Some have raised concerns about the cleanup’s sufficiency.
    — Michelle De La Uz, New York Daily News, 13 May 2026
  • She was adopted at a young age and compelled to self-sufficiency very early in life.
    — Austin R. Ramsey, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
  • But the first step on the path to financial self-sufficiency is finding a job.
    — Andy Puzder, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The road to self-sufficiency for the transit agency remains long.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • This provoked the chief minister to call for building food self-sufficiency in the state.
    — S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 3 May 2020
  • New requirements to encourage work and self-sufficiency are part of the plan.
    — Jennifer C. Kerr, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
  • Our dreams of self-sufficiency were further fed by the craze for turning kitchen scraps into crops — even if only on a very small scale.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Their newfound self-sufficiency is a boon not only for the research, but also for each other.
    — Wudan Yan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • There are so many ways to instill self-sufficiency in children, but withholding comfort is not one of them.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • The goal is for these families to reach self-sufficiency within 12 months.
    — The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2021
  • That's a quick path to self-sufficiency and the ability to provide for your family.
    — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The area’s high cost of living, fueled in large part by the current tech boom, acts as an obstacle to self-sufficiency.
    — Tyrone Beason / Columnist, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • But the question of whether the goal of self-sufficiency has been achieved is seemingly subjective.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • One of the great benefits of solar power is self-sufficiency.
    — WSJ, 18 May 2021
  • The grant will be used to improve the survivors’ safety, access to justice and self sufficiency.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The value of even the illusions of privacy and self-sufficiency is too high.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The push for self-sufficiency in case of a full shutdown promoted more people to plant a vegetable garden.
    — oregonlive, 19 June 2020
  • Our hopes are that people come inside and begin working on a path away from homelessness and to self-sufficiency.
    — Courier Journal Staff Reports, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But at the time, there also emerged a group of scholars who did question the sufficiency of liberalism.
    — Christopher Beem, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Her role here, like the other innkeepers, is to firmly push the guests toward taking concrete steps to self-sufficiency.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • In those years between the cuddly attachment of childhood and the self-sufficiency of adulthood, teens can cause quite a headache for those who love them.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • This time, Maria, aspiring to self-sufficiency, wants to be the leaver, to defy the fate of confinement.
    — Tiana Reid, The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2020
  • At the same time, Cry Macho casts doubt on the value of masculine self-sufficiency.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • But then the opponent will have to counter these adjustments; so the self-sufficiency and problem solving still exists.
    — SI.com, 16 May 2018
  • In the United States, most efforts focus on self sufficiency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
  • What’s worrying to him is that abundance can masquerade as sufficiency.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • But with 300 miles of beaches, Sierra Leone can claim self-sufficiency in sand.
    — Peter Yeung, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • As a result, the government continued to trumpet the sufficiency of the food supply even as the famine began to take hold.
    — Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
  • The self-sufficiency of that military base has long played a role in keeping Twentynine Palms sleepy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022

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