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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
Plants are drought tolerant, but also perform well in moist, rich soil.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 July 2025
Liberal means generous, broad-minded, tolerant, worldly, seeking acculturation and education, and using government to aid collective human flourishing.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
With Substack likely to remain tolerant of such content, CEP will continue monitoring how extremist groups use Substack to expand their movements, Fisher-Birch confirmed.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2025
The postwar order had once been more tolerant of ambiguity in international rules and institutions.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 July 2025
Liberal means generous, broad-minded, tolerant, worldly, seeking acculturation and education, and using government to aid collective human flourishing.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
With Substack likely to remain tolerant of such content, CEP will continue monitoring how extremist groups use Substack to expand their movements, Fisher-Birch confirmed.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2025
The postwar order had once been more tolerant of ambiguity in international rules and institutions.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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Through the strategic integration of AI, organizations can simultaneously improve patient outcomes, drive efficiency and enhance operational responsibilities.—
Mammon Baloch,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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To supplement those real-life cases, providers visit simulation labs, do monthly mock scenarios, and review advanced skills, such as using an ultrasound to help guide breathing tubes into patient airways.—
Arielle Zionts. KFF Health News,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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When zero hour arrived, on a muggy Thursday afternoon, her manner was one of resigned acquiescence.—
Ned Zeman,
Outside,
14 Nov. 2021
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Just 14 yards on resigned run plays were, however, according to Pro Football Focus.—
Oliver Thomas,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Opposite Zegler is Olivas, a stoic, sinister Perón—and, at 28, an unusually young actor for the role.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
15 Aug. 2025
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The normally stoic Kyle Tucker, hitting .200 in his last 18 games with just one home run since June 29, whipped his helmet down the dugout steps after grounding out with two runners on in the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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The Guthrie family cowers in obedient fear of its brooding patriarch (Peter Mullan).—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
5 Aug. 2025
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Hana must suppress her considerate and obedient nature or her destiny will be as dark as the solar eclipse.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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This is because a dollar that Starbucks makes from selling coffee (its core business) is more likely to be repeatable and is likely to be protected from greater barriers to entry that management can influence than a dollar made from say return on passive financial instruments the firm might earn.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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However, even when plugging into the headphone jack of a source device, the P100 SE's electronics need to be powered on to hear anything (in other words, there isn't a passive analog mode here).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Aug. 2025
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Where Chelsea’s domestic overseers have been largely acquiescent to their accounting ingenuity, the same can’t be said abroad.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 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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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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