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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
And other than ignoramus Slovacek, the recruits seem an unusually tolerant bunch with no qualms about leaning into the naturally homoerotic.
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Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Nigeria is a very tolerant country.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Although cold tolerant, they should be covered during hard freezes.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
In Regnery’s telling, the bigger driver of Trane’s transformation has been a shift in its culture, towards being more risk-tolerant, innovative, and growth-focused.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Nigeria is a very tolerant country.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Although cold tolerant, they should be covered during hard freezes.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
In Regnery’s telling, the bigger driver of Trane’s transformation has been a shift in its culture, towards being more risk-tolerant, innovative, and growth-focused.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tolerant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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The second-round pick has had to be patient for his moment after dealing with a groin injury in training camp.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
19 Oct. 2025
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Milwaukee specialized in putting runs on the board in the regular season, advancing several baserunners through patient approaches at the plate, while also focusing on making contact.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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When legends who have left the public eye or dealt with illness pass away, there’s a sort of resigned expectation, but that wasn’t the case with Keaton, who worked all the way to the end before dying at 79.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Cowboys are only .500, and the expectations for this team from their resigned fan base are so low that a playoff appearance will qualify as a good year.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Oct. 2025
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The comment is a nod to the stoic—or perhaps desensitized—demeanor of younger travelers in the face of stressors that rattle many.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Successful in disputing Dunbar’s religious exception status are true and deep, Disney’s 20th TV Friday were almost stoic in their victory.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
17 Oct. 2025
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There’s a difference, school leaders said, between building the confidence of girls, whom society expects to be obedient and agreeable, and building the confidence of boys, who get different societal messages.—
Melanie Asmar,
Denver Post,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Tyrell Corporation, a powerful company that created the replicants and profits from sending them to work on distant colonies, sees them as nothing more than obedient workers.—
Claire A. Simmers,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2025
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Being passive aggressive and giving non-committal responses is clearly not working.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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X-ray studies show the spray comes in rapid pulses, like a tiny machine gun, generated by a passive valve-and-membrane system that cycles pressure safely without cooking the beetle itself.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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The president has been calling aggressively for lower rates and a more acquiescent Fed.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
17 Sep. 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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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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