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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
Additionally, crypto is tolerant to chlorine and isn’t very effective in combatting outbreaks.
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Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Some Herbs Lavender, mint, oregano, sage, and other cold tolerant herbs are also suitable for sowing in milk jugs.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
The military have since become more tolerant of tattoos, cutting off that particular draft-dodging loophole.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024
Highly agreeable individuals are tolerant, warm and conflict-averse.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Some Herbs Lavender, mint, oregano, sage, and other cold tolerant herbs are also suitable for sowing in milk jugs.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
The military have since become more tolerant of tattoos, cutting off that particular draft-dodging loophole.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024
Highly agreeable individuals are tolerant, warm and conflict-averse.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tolerant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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DoorDash customers are asked to be patient during winter and turn on their outdoor lights to help out the delivery drivers.Renee Umsted, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2025
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What still isn’t known Our research does not clarify whether the changes in dispensing patterns led to measurable changes in patient outcomes.Ashley Bradford, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 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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Crowds gathering for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival on the sprawling palace grounds reached into backpacks for umbrellas with the resigned look of people attending a supremely English occasion designed to be held in sunshine.Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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Oscar, older and more outwardly stoic, has no guarantees.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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Arthur and my mum share mystery novels and classical music and the kind of endless, expressive conversation that confused and exhausted my quiet, stoic, old-school European dad.Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
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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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Where the novel viewed race with passive indifference, the musical faced it head-on, building out peripheral Black characters and opening with a Black chorus, followed in the same scene by a white one, integrating what was typically kept on separate stages.Joshua Barone, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Against the Vikings in Week 10, the Jags played the highest percentage of two high safety snaps in a game — a shockingly passive approach — daring Darnold to consistently find shorter completions.Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 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 21 Jan. 2025.
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