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Recent Examples of accept Over half of the workforce now either accepts or actively embraces AI agents. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025 The department is still accepting reports and said survivors have control of what happens after their report is received. Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025 Defendants in most of them had accepted plea deals. Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025 Any player who receives one has 15 days to decide whether to accept or reject it. Chandler Rome, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for accept
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accept
Verb
  • James is one of them, though his kindly attempts to be there for Linda, as amateur repairman and reluctant babysitter, have a way of backfiring, usually on himself.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Although exact details have yet to be released, people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press that Hamas is expected to release all 20 surviving hostages this weekend, while Israeli forces begin withdrawing from most of Gaza.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Whether the rules change or not, what really matters is what investors demand — and what markets are willing to tolerate.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Cold-hardy varieties may tolerate cold, but that doesn’t mean planting them just ahead of cold weather is ideal.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Under the agreement, accepted by both parties this week, Hamas will return all living hostages—believed to be around 20—in exchange for roughly 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and about 1,700 detainees from Gaza.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The percentage tells the public how much of the fire perimeter is believed to not go beyond the control lines.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Secure, redundant communication systems ensure instant presidential command, while E-6B airborne launch control aircraft can assume control if ground communication is lost, guaranteeing uninterrupted deterrence capability.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The bias is that the first question assumes or glosses over the legitimacy of caging, tacitly accepting the human agricultural system as the baseline.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While the jury is out on the exact cause of Harry Potter’s enduring popularity, Beach and Willner highlight an important point in its favor.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 12 Oct. 2025
  • This team as a collective seemed proud of their season, triumphant in raising the bar for an organization that not long ago endured a decade-long playoff drought.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Burns took them from a housing project to the C-suite, then used that platform to demand better for everyone coming after her.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Getting the balance right does take skilful execution.
    Adam Gale, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Your browser does not support the video tag.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Please consider supporting local journalism and getting unlimited digital access.
    Amy Huschka, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here, settler colonialism is understood as a form of environmental injustice, where pollution and degraded landscapes diminish Indigenous quality of life and ability to be in right relationship with the environment.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • First, understand what the ruling means.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Accept.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accept. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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