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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Mikail added that a case like this also requires the therapist to surrender the ideal of perfect recovery—to accept that patients can heal in meaningful ways even if their healing isn’t complete.
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Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
When a person, appointed to any office, refuses to accept that office, the successor is nominated in the place of the person who has declined to accept, and not in the place of the person who had been previously in office and had created the original vacancy.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025
Many progressives still won’t accept that radical transgenderism is an electoral liability.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 27 July 2025
For years on Dexter, our favorite fedora-wearing charmer was somehow both a great detective and also entirely unable to accept that his longtime friend was a killer, no matter how many people voiced their suspicions to him.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 July 2025
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Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
When a person, appointed to any office, refuses to accept that office, the successor is nominated in the place of the person who has declined to accept, and not in the place of the person who had been previously in office and had created the original vacancy.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025
Many progressives still won’t accept that radical transgenderism is an electoral liability.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 27 July 2025
For years on Dexter, our favorite fedora-wearing charmer was somehow both a great detective and also entirely unable to accept that his longtime friend was a killer, no matter how many people voiced their suspicions to him.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 July 2025
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“Accept that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accept%20that. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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