as in bigotry
stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices
a group whose mission is to oppose intolerance and extremism
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Recent Examples of intolerance
The report showed that both of my cats showed strong intolerances to common ingredients in their diet, like various types of fish and chicken meal.
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Molly Higgins, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
For people who have specific digestive conditions or fructose intolerance, eating watermelon might cause uncomfortable symptoms.
—Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2025
Those with lactose intolerance are usually okay with goat milk products.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
Sheridan’s intolerance for bureaucracy is equally strong.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2025
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Molly Higgins, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
For people who have specific digestive conditions or fructose intolerance, eating watermelon might cause uncomfortable symptoms.
—Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2025
Those with lactose intolerance are usually okay with goat milk products.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
Sheridan’s intolerance for bureaucracy is equally strong.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerance
Noun
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The right is being horrifyingly plain in bleating their bigotry, but they’re also lost in linguistic obscurities.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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During a hospital stay, Roy’s enfeebled mother fixates on the caste and religious affiliations of the doctors treating her—the sort of thing that will be familiar to anyone who has cringed at a diminished elder’s unfiltered prejudices.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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From hiring algorithms that penalize women to facial recognition systems that misidentify people of color, AI is at risk of replicating—and even amplifying—our worst human prejudices.—
Sagar Gupta,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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That — metaphorically and literally — is earned dogmatism, the risk that expertise breeds rigidity in our thinking and decision-making.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.—
Chris R. Morgan,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Unlike the India of the Cold War, which remained robustly liberal even when underperforming economically, India today, despite being more economically successful, has been markedly tainted by illiberalism and authoritarianism.—
ASHLEY J. TELLIS,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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If so, or even if not, the results of illiberalism by governmental bodies on both sides of the Atlantic are clear for all to see.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Address ethics, bias and compliance early.—
David Henkin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Job candidates with names that sound smooth and soft may have a surprising edge in the hiring process, according to a new study that explored how sound symbolism leads to hiring biases.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The film looks at the key role of political cartoons in global democracies, the decline of the profession amid a newspaper industry meltdown and the effects of extreme political partisanship on media and editorial cartooning.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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In a statement to CNN, Andrew Nixon, Director of Communications for HHS, said the states moves away from CDC guidance were based on partisanship, rather than science.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Intolerance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerance. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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