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Recent Examples of permissiveness
Biden surpassed Ronald Reagan in permissiveness for refugees’ suffering.
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Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
Some of this unprecedented editorial permissiveness can be attributed to the disappearance of a stable moral consensus to bind the ruling class to its subjects, who have come to develop the conviction that the Establishment has nothing good to say for itself.
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Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
The suggestion, in other words, is that the chatbot should err on the side of permissiveness in response to user prompts for erotic material.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
The federal government’s permissiveness toward this form of betting lets platforms operate nationwide without following state laws or tax rates—a potentially lucrative proposition that has gained venture capital backing while angering states and tribal groups.
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Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
26 Nov. 2025
What then to make of Netflix’s permissiveness toward the theatrical experience this awards season?
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Chris Lee,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
With trigger-warning culture on the wane and a brutish permissiveness creeping back into society, corporate scolds have lost much of their power.
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Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025
That era of permissiveness is now over.
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Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
Some of this unprecedented editorial permissiveness can be attributed to the disappearance of a stable moral consensus to bind the ruling class to its subjects, who have come to develop the conviction that the Establishment has nothing good to say for itself.
—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
The suggestion, in other words, is that the chatbot should err on the side of permissiveness in response to user prompts for erotic material.
—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
The federal government’s permissiveness toward this form of betting lets platforms operate nationwide without following state laws or tax rates—a potentially lucrative proposition that has gained venture capital backing while angering states and tribal groups.
—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
26 Nov. 2025
What then to make of Netflix’s permissiveness toward the theatrical experience this awards season?
—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2025
However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity.
—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
With trigger-warning culture on the wane and a brutish permissiveness creeping back into society, corporate scolds have lost much of their power.
—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025
That era of permissiveness is now over.
—
Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permissiveness
Noun
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This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year in our great nation and especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
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This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once-wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year, especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
Noun
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This excessiveness can hinder critical knowledge building because of the sheer amount of information that can be accessed simultaneously at any time.
Noun
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The heat, the sunlight, the wildness of the landscape immediately locked me into the Greek atmosphere of the book.
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Adams does not stop for meaning, his early minimalist style causing the words to flow over you whether in somber reflection or the wildness of wild nights that do, indeed, stop for death.
Noun
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Now the carriages are no longer a necessity but an indulgence aimed at tourists.
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Chocolate is one of Americans' favorite indulgences, with consumers spending billions of dollars on it every year.
Noun
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Rather, the term has come to stand for a range of attributes—intemperance, ordinariness, outsiderness, likability, spontaneity—that aren’t especially related philosophically, either to authenticity or to one another.
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The power to issue absolute pardons, explicitly stipulated in the founding document, has been exploited with bipartisan intemperance.
Noun
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If feedback arrives, stay curious and trim the excess, since structure turns spark into useful results.
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Doug Goldstein, the former longtime manager of Guns N’ Roses, who saw the hard rock group through the heights of commercial success and chaotic periods of rock ‘n’ roll excess, has died.
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She would have been floored by the casualness that has seeped into society today, from wearing pajamas on flights to sweatpants to dinner.
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Seydoux also approaches her beauty with a quintessentially French casualness.
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“Permissiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permissiveness. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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