Nevil ShuteBulletin of Bates Collegesupply
3 of 3less common spelling of supplely
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Examples of supply in a Sentence
Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!
RULES OF THE GAME:
1.
—Kathleen Saxe, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
The company, founded in 1982, once offered an assortment of groceries, beauty products, and household supplies at a steep discount.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
Michigan retail chains expected to carry solar eclipse glasses:
Walmart
Lowe's
Menards
Kroger
Meijer
Staples
Detroit Public Library
Detroit Public Library is hosting viewing parties at each of its open branches, supplying eclipse glasses while supplies last.
—Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
This place, this idea, demands of its adherents what religion does any pilgrim — devotion, sacrifice, faith that all will be worth it in the end — and supplies in turn the same benefits — ritual, community, comfort.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Thus armed, Ukraine could cut off Russia’s line forces from supply, forcing their withdrawal from the country.
—Robert Zubrin, National Review, 7 Apr. 2024
Lentil soup is often all the family can afford in Deir al-Balah, where market supplies are thin and food prices have rocketed.
—Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
Nearly 150 were out of medicine, and others were nearing the end of their supply.
—Casey Parks, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
Matthew Continetti, National Review, 6 Apr. 2024
In October 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced a one-year agreement with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to supply the state with gray wolves.
—USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
But the rail lines that both sides need to supply troops are intact.
—Claire Harbage, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
The United States has supplied Israel with weapons since the war began.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
But the President has continued to insure that Israel is supplied with weapons and aid.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
The Colorado River supplies cities and farmlands in seven states from Wyoming to California, as well as 30 tribal nations.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Each item supplied by PlaygroundEquipment.com meets the industry’s national safety and quality standards as set by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
—Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
The test starts with a collection of malware-hosting web pages supplied by the researchers at MRG-Effitas.
—PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Noun
derivative of supply entry 2
Verb
Middle English supplien "to fill up, accomplish, discharge (an office)," borrowed from Middle French soupplier "to add what is lacking to" (also souppleer, suploier "to make up for [a lack, deficiency]," suppleer a, soupplir "to replace"), going back to Latin supplēre "to fill up, complete, raise (a military unit, crew) to its full complement, make good a deficiency in," from sub- sub- + plēre "to fill" — more at full entry 1
Note: Though the French verb receives its semantic start with Latin supplēre, none of the great variety of formal outcomes appear to be directly traceable to it. Variants such as suploier and soupplier have evidently been crossed with outcomes of supplicāre "to sue for forgiveness, supplicate" (see also suppliant entry 1). The form suppleer, which may be directly behind Modern French suppléer, appears to have been both latinized (after supplēre) and conformed to verbs such as créer. The variant soupplir suggests the general Romance re-formation *supplīre (compare Old Occitan and Spanish suplir, Italian sopperire).
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 5
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3
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“Supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supply. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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transitive verb
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