accept that
idiom
: to consider (something) to be true
He was unwilling to accept that he could no longer play as he once had.
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Meanwhile, tech firms must accept that building computers is one thing; powering them responsibly, reliably, and safely for the masses is another.
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Medicine might help, if your sister were willing to accept that kind of intervention.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2025
Back in the day, the players used to get on with it a bit more and just accept that the ball got worse as it got hit and time went on.
—James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
Too impatient to accept that the waveform dot on the machine’s display moved only up and down instead of both vertically and horizontally, Mann invented a way to push its image through physical space.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2025
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Medicine might help, if your sister were willing to accept that kind of intervention.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2025
Back in the day, the players used to get on with it a bit more and just accept that the ball got worse as it got hit and time went on.
—James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
Too impatient to accept that the waveform dot on the machine’s display moved only up and down instead of both vertically and horizontally, Mann invented a way to push its image through physical space.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Accept that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accept%20that. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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