as in obedience
a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others
good manners demanded our cheerful acquiescence to our host's plans for dinner
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Recent Examples of acquiescence
This lack of callout could be construed as a form of acquiescence that the delusion is apt.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In March, with Trump’s more or less full acquiescence, Netanyahu ended a ceasefire with Hamas that the U.S. had brokered in January.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 31 July 2025
The difference between our current moment and those earlier episodes is that, at least briefly, there was a period of reckoning and reform in response to presidential overreach, congressional acquiescence, and judicial complicity.
—Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025
With Jokowi’s acquiescence, Indonesia’s parliament significantly reduced the independence of the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission, founded in 2002 to tackle rampant graft.
—Ben Bland, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In March, with Trump’s more or less full acquiescence, Netanyahu ended a ceasefire with Hamas that the U.S. had brokered in January.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 31 July 2025
The difference between our current moment and those earlier episodes is that, at least briefly, there was a period of reckoning and reform in response to presidential overreach, congressional acquiescence, and judicial complicity.
—Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025
With Jokowi’s acquiescence, Indonesia’s parliament significantly reduced the independence of the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission, founded in 2002 to tackle rampant graft.
—Ben Bland, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquiescence
Noun
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English wasn’t tied to the same expectations of obedience, modesty, or loyalty.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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The post-Super movies have more complex, contradictory characters but less ambiguity about what’s right (egalitarian societies in which every citizen has a voice) and what’s wrong (cultlike obedience to fascistic belief systems that have no interest in anything but domination and self-enrichment).—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Convening a special session without the governor’s assent requires the support of two-thirds of lawmakers in the House and Senate.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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So, yes, as unworkable as this plan might seem for the Palestinian group, a Hamas assent is entirely plausible.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Proxy advisors will continue to play a role, but their influence will no longer be supported by blind deference.—
Shane Goodwin,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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His pretensions—riding around in a grand coach and continuing the weekly levees—as well as his administration’s notorious effort to enforce deference in the 1798 Sedition Act, fell flat.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But for Coles, his indoctrination to law enforcement has been a different level of submissiveness.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2025
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In Killers of the Flower Moon, his Ernest Burkhart starts off as a mopey, weak-minded World War One veteran, eager to do anything for his godfather uncle (Robert De Niro), but there’s still a certain likability to his dim-bulb submissiveness.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Acquiescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquiescence. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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