as in resigned
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
was not as acquiescent about sharing her room as her parents seemed to think she should be
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Recent Examples of acquiescent
That amendment had been made a dead letter by Jim Crow state legislatures and an acquiescent Supreme Court.
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Robert D. Bland,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
With This is Gavin Newsom, the California governor is obviously working to position himself as some sort of aisle-bridging but Trump-antagonizing candidate, an acquiescent project that involves booking Steve Bannon one week and Ezra Klein the next.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2025
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Robert D. Bland,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had.
—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
With This is Gavin Newsom, the California governor is obviously working to position himself as some sort of aisle-bridging but Trump-antagonizing candidate, an acquiescent project that involves booking Steve Bannon one week and Ezra Klein the next.
—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquiescent
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Liz Alvarado skillfully broadens this figure from a resigned, knowing older woman committed to marrying for security, to believably revealing dormant feelings within her that tamped down her first-and-only true enamorado Diego.
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Neither is the machine that, partway through the play, noisily turns the stage into a great berg of foam, which slowly subsumes a resigned Kramer.
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Second, victims of higher taxes don’t stand still and get sheared like obedient sheep.
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The dogs Kostyukevich saw on Happy K9 Academy’s Instagram page seemed happy and obedient.
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And for many women, tapping into that passive income could be a real lifeline in a cost-of-living crisis.
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The physical configuration achieves passive safety operational profiles by relying on subcritical physics variables and inherent material limitations.
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“Acquiescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquiescent. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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