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verb (2)

present participle of accept
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of accept
Verb
During the power outage luxury boutiques and stores across the city were closed, and restaurants would accept cash only, throwing much of the last day of the film festival into disarray as locals and festival goers alike piled into the streets. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 24 May 2025 More than 100,000 federal employees lost their jobs in the first two months of Trump's second administration through layoffs of probationary employees, who are new to government work or recently moved between agencies or accepted a promotion. Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 24 May 2025
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Nickerson: [With Jeff], that really grew out of wanting to tell the Shauna story and to bring her to a point where the person that knows her the best in the world, has always been so accepting, to have that person, not turn on her, but no longer be able to extend that benefit of the doubt. Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025 That Vince McMahon Rejected One of the reasons Saraya is considering returning to WWE is because the company is more accepting of wrestlers doing things outside of the promotion. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
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Brunson has kept her relationship quiet, confirming it in her speech accepting the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award at the 2022 Emmys, per PEOPLE. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025 If someone tries to hurry you into accepting a different quote to the one that you had been given, stop immediately and look elsewhere. Davey Winder, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for accept
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accept
Adjective
  • Independents, especially those with college degrees, have become less approving over time.
    Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • On cue, bright, metallic outbursts rang from the cimbalom, winning the approving nod of a nearby French-horn player.
    Jane Bua, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • His resigned air in the press conference felt like a man who had too much to juggle to cross over the line first.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In recent weeks, a number of artists canceled planned appearances and resigned positions associated with the center.
    Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
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  • Their unquestioning, immovable fealty is frightening.
    Neil A. Grauer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024
  • If Trump’s party was no longer delivering wins, then maybe his opponents didn’t need to show him such unquestioning loyalty.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Soak your grates in a mixture of warm water and vinegar.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 16 May 2025
  • Hollywood’s obsession with IP and sequels certainly hasn’t gone away, and the upcoming warm months will feature a number of remakes that nobody really asked for.
    Ben Rosenstock, Time, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • While downgrades are nothing new, Moody’s cited six factors — an unusually large number, with all of them related in one way or the other to Trump policies — for its pessimistic forecast.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Consumers have the most pessimistic outlook since October 2011, according to the Conference Board, driven by fears surrounding tariffs, inflation and the possibility of a recession.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The results show that Rasmus has tested positive for paternity — but the match is only 24.1%.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 22 May 2025
  • Researchers noted the positive effects of ecstatic epilepsy and synthesized fifty-three theoretical models of delusion.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Is this a cynical attempt to rescue their party from a political free fall?
    John Opdycke, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
  • And so Lee’s reinterpretation strains to leave us on a high instead of a low, as befits the finale of an update so compellingly eager to flip the script on one of Kurosawa’s most cynical films.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The big story Just a week after a breakthrough in U.S.-China trade tensions, neither side can yet be confident that the other is holding up their end of the bargain.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 21 May 2025
  • The club, for their part, are confident they will be granted entry.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 May 2025

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