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as in impatient
unable or unwilling to endure
intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for
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as in bigoted
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted
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Recent Examples of intolerant
And as increasingly militant voices in our culture have joined the ranks, the environment has become even more intolerant.
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Amy Stephens, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
In Kimmel’s silencing, some in the MAGAverse see another win against an intolerant Left.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Ben Kang loves ice cream, but like many lactose-intolerant people, a trip to the local ice cream shop could quickly turn sour.
—Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
When the people at the age and in the places that are supposed to be the most open to different ways of thinking are increasingly brittle and intolerant, the implications for the larger society bode ill.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
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Amy Stephens, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
In Kimmel’s silencing, some in the MAGAverse see another win against an intolerant Left.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Ben Kang loves ice cream, but like many lactose-intolerant people, a trip to the local ice cream shop could quickly turn sour.
—Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
When the people at the age and in the places that are supposed to be the most open to different ways of thinking are increasingly brittle and intolerant, the implications for the larger society bode ill.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
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Unfortunately, for impatient gardeners, your seeds may not germinate if the soil temperature doesn't suit them.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
7 Mar. 2026
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Facing impatient investors, Sweetgreen soon devised a cost-cutting plan that threatened the very ideals on which the founders promised to never compromise.—
Bloomberg,
Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Khalil has rebutted the government’s characterizations of his advocacy as bigoted or supportive of violence.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Backlash has been swift among many leading Democrats, and even conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, calling Fine's comments bigoted and Islamophobic, and demanding he be censured and step down.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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An energy vampire has bad body language, the complaining look on their face, the vocal complainer.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
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Zero tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, a narrow channel just off Iran’s southern coast that’s normally packed with an armada of 60 or more ships carrying 20% of the world’s oil.—
Vanessa Yurkevich,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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The narrow Strait is the only way for tankers to enter and exit the Persian Gulf.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
6 Mar. 2026
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Any negative pushback in this moment will be interpreted as a small-minded and eminently self-serving response that puts parochial party interests above the interests of the country.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Democrats who opposed the bill, however, said the money would mainly go to private or parochial institutions and is part of the Republican caucus's efforts to direct money into private education.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 Feb. 2026
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The three others, including the pilot, were brought to a hospital with injuries, Pililla town Mayor John Masinsin and the provincial police told reporters.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The police command spokesman for Nangarhar province, Said Tayyeb Hammad, said that anti-aircraft missiles were used from the provincial capital, Jalalabad, and surrounding areas on Pakistani fighter jets flying overhead Sunday morning.—
ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN,
Arkansas Online,
2 Mar. 2026
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There is no record of his ever making a prejudiced or crude remark about anyone.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Doing so might help Ortiz avoid being prejudiced by the evidence against Clase.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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My own passage into and back out of unbelief—one marked by a close reading of works that earlier illiberal societies had attempted to suppress on religious grounds—has strengthened my liberal commitments.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Hungary remains a democracy in name, but an illiberal one in substance.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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