as in patient
accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint
she was inspired by the forbearing patients of the intensive care unit
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as in avoiding
to resist the temptation of
she's old enough to make her own decisions, so we must forbear criticizing her taste in clothes
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Recent Examples of forbearing
Jeff Kingston, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
With the economy in the doldrums, the public is less forbearing.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
If Mamdani seems curiously forbearing toward Amin, given his own history, that has much to do with what happened next.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forbearing
Adjective
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This progress is an important step toward personalized medicine, helping make surgical practice as accurate as possible to improve patient outcomes.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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Stedman lands every blow thanks to her patient accumulation of ordinary life, the shearing and mustering and fence-mending, the slow mapping of relationships that ensures each loss registers as something more than plot machinery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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After resolving debt and avoiding Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the always press-averse Ellison departed Hollywood right before the COVID-19 pandemic and largely stayed away for a number of years.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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Miller said avoiding commercial terminals is purposefully built into RetrievAir’s business model.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Veterinarian Nick Trout treats, and fails, stoic Maverick.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
8 Mar. 2026
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Sure, Gyeong-nam is outwardly stoic and hard to read, but his tsundere trajectory and the office romance setting of his romance with Mi-rae are their own polished tropes.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Tariffs could be 'hard sell' in election year How obedient will the congressional GOP be to Trump in an election year?—
Justin Papp,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2026
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The audience would do well to stay attuned to this goal — and how obedient Nat is willing to be.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Forbearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbearing. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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