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as in patient
accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint
this job requires a tolerant person who is used to dealing with complaints and angry customers
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as in resigned
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
a tolerant acceptance of the terrible way that his wife has always treated him
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Recent Examples of tolerant
Technology tests in include regolith sampling, regolith adherence, Global Navigation Satellite System abilities, radiation tolerant computing, and dust mitigation using electrodynamic fields.
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
Afterward, Meta shares hit a record, indicating that investors appear more tolerant of the company’s heavy spending as long as it is related to AI and not the still-nascent metaverse.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Counterintuitively, refugees who have been exposed to violence during the Syrian civil war are actually more tolerant of and better at assessing the risk of returning to Syria, research has shown.
—Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
However, some plants are naturally more tolerant to road salt, and growing these hardy plants can make gardening near roadways a lot easier.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
Afterward, Meta shares hit a record, indicating that investors appear more tolerant of the company’s heavy spending as long as it is related to AI and not the still-nascent metaverse.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
Counterintuitively, refugees who have been exposed to violence during the Syrian civil war are actually more tolerant of and better at assessing the risk of returning to Syria, research has shown.
—Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
However, some plants are naturally more tolerant to road salt, and growing these hardy plants can make gardening near roadways a lot easier.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
Adjective
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The pharmaceutical industry thrives on precision and an unwavering commitment to patient outcomes.—
Sivakumar Ramakrishnan,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Case Studies Hospital Network A hospital was dealing with a high turnover of nurses due to burnout, putting patient care at risk.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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While adopting a resigned wait-it-out slouch, a running thread at the summit came down to a simple but actionable question: At what point has the United States entered into a constitutional crisis?—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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Suddenly, a season of weekly must-win games and hard conversations gave way to a resigned relaxation.—
Paul Dehner Jr.,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
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His emotions know how to run the gamut from comedy to tragedy, deftly moving past his humorous nature to being more stoic when the heat gets turned up for the Blazing Trojans.—
Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Their more recent public displays of affection are a stark departure from years past, when the Prince and Princess of Wales were typically more stoic in their interactions publicly.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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His oxygen tank sat at his knees like an obedient mastiff.—
Brandon Taylor,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2025
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Anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.—
Bebe Hodges,
USA TODAY,
15 Nov. 2024
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Employees became more engaged in organizational initiatives, fostering a culture of active participation rather than passive compliance.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Weegee’s pictures of disaster, crime, and urban blight not only grabbed viewers’ attention but highlighted the ways in which passive spectatorship had come to dominate our lives as citizens.—
Naomi Fry,
The New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2025
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Netanyahu appears convinced that his country’s security, along with his own political survival, depends on prolonging the military offensives and keeping both Gaza and Lebanon ungovernable, and therefore acquiescent.—
Mohanad Hage Ali,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Nov. 2024
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The young man’s comment was out of line, and my silence felt somehow acquiescent.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
21 Sep. 2024
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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