sufficient explanation

collocation in English

meaningsofsufficientandexplanation

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sufficient
adjective
uk
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough for a ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofsufficientandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsufficient explanation

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But it was not asufficientexplanationto discredit him altogether.
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But again, the successful location of the light-sensitive elements did not automatically lead to asufficientexplanationof how organisms could see.
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But are the educational and age differences asufficientexplanationfor the differences in the number of children?
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Of course, frequency is not asufficientexplanation; otherwise we would never get beyond the definite article in our speech.
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The report shows that migration may explain how health care and social insurance are used, but is not asufficientexplanation.
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This means that pause duration alone is not asufficientexplanationfor the difference between infants' segmentation of initial and medial vowel-initial words.
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The present data, together with the data obtained on other loci close to the inversion breakpoint, do not favour background selection as asufficientexplanation.
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Evidence-based primary health care and local research 197 years may besufficientexplanationof the difference between the two studies.
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Therefore, asufficientexplanationmust take into account that the organizational choice may incur short-term political costs.
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Patients are instructed to report physical symptoms that cause significant personal distress and for which doctors had not foundsufficientexplanation.
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For, on reflection, we can see that it merely leads to an infinite regress that actually undermines the attempt to give asufficientexplanationfor contingent states of affairs.
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Therefore, the existence of more connections or more neurons is not asufficientexplanationfor the lateral expansion of the cortical plate and therefore of cortical evolution.
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Depression may not be asufficientexplanationfor subjective memory complaints.
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I think this issufficientexplanationof the fact that we take to barrages after those countries.
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I am worried that there is notsufficientexplanationof the new posts or of the salaries at which they are being advertised.
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They are asking for it withoutsufficientexplanation.
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The point was raised yesterday, and we have not had asufficientexplanationyet.
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We have never had anysufficientexplanationof that.
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