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Recent Examples of sufferance Every page is alive with animus, ardor, humor, sufferance, with venom for death and its posturing acolytes: Anyone who has not killed is not a man: This sentence, which Hemingway fashioned, means nothing at all. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024 Matchday was a sufferance, the opposite of life-affirming. George Caulkin, The Athletic, 10 July 2024 Through his cult of personality, Modi is fulfilling a century-old project, recasting India as a Hindu nation, in which minorities, particularly Muslims, live at the sufferance of the majority. Samanth Subramanian Vikas Adam Tanya Pérez Zachary Mouton, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024 The Kirk Douglas, the smallest of the company’s three venues and ostensibly the most experimental, is the scrappy Culver City orphan, living at the sufferance of its older siblings at L.A.’s Music Center. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023 Air India’s nationalization signaled that in independent India private enterprise would survive on the government’s sufferance. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021 In the music of Beethoven, there is such an ethical, moral integrity … and power and sufferance. Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019 Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sufferance
Noun
  • In order to hunt on private land, hunters must have written permission, Meeker said.
    Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
  • As a fallback, the administration also sought permission to begin public communications on how the policy would be implemented, should it eventually be upheld.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Despite her patience, civility, and willingness to compromise, she’s left second-guessing herself.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 6 July 2025
  • And yet his patience had already been tested by the sixty-seven-year-old Mark Geragos, defense attorney to the stars, who was serving as an unofficial adviser to Combs’s legal team.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Last month, 27 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit to block the sale of customers' genetic information without their consent.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 July 2025
  • Indeed, Thomas Jefferson used ideas learned during his own college education to write the Declaration of Independence and establish one of the most consequential political doctrines in modern history: all people are created equal and possess inherent rights to a government based on their consent.
    Time, Time, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Both stimulate new growth but this is the time for slow growth so plants adapt to drought tolerance. • Use a sharp spray of water to clean plant leaves of dust, dirt, aphids, white flies and spider mites, whose presence is evident by tiny webs on leaves and stems.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Although oxygen tends to get most of the attention, this process is closely tied to carbon dioxide tolerance.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • In 2020, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the Saenz brothers, but President Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, withdrew that authorization in November 2023.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
  • To get this authorization, the operator has to prove that its vehicles: Can operate while complying with state traffic laws.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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“Sufferance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sufferance. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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