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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _is_suffix(self, t):
 """Return true if t is a suffix."""

        return t not in NOT_SUFFIX and (t.replace('.', '') in SUFFIXES or t.replace('.', '') in SUFFIXES_LOWER)