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as in patient
accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint
this job requires a tolerant person who is used to dealing with complaints and angry customers
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as in resigned
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
a tolerant acceptance of the terrible way that his wife has always treated him
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Recent Examples of tolerant
Crocodiles are more tolerant of saltwater than alligators and are commonly found in mangrove habitats, bays and estuaries in South Florida.
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Sergio Candido, CBS News, 16 June 2026
These grasses are low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, and help suppress weeds in the garden.
—Cori Sears, The Spruce, 16 June 2026
Softneck garlic is more tolerant of temperature extremes and can also be grown indoors.
—Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 13 June 2026
Cultivars tolerant of early blight include ‘Mountain Magic’, ‘Celebrity’, ‘Juliet’, and ‘Rutgers’.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2026
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Sergio Candido, CBS News, 16 June 2026
These grasses are low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, and help suppress weeds in the garden.
—Cori Sears, The Spruce, 16 June 2026
Softneck garlic is more tolerant of temperature extremes and can also be grown indoors.
—Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 13 June 2026
Cultivars tolerant of early blight include ‘Mountain Magic’, ‘Celebrity’, ‘Juliet’, and ‘Rutgers’.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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The clinic offers Sapphire FUE and DHI procedures and has built a strong English-language patient pipeline targeting European and American travelers.—
Ascend Agency,
Denver Post,
18 June 2026
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Be patient because borax works slowly, though effectively.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
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The general reaction from my colleagues seemed to be a resigned sense that chaos is the new norm.—
Paul Knoepfler,
STAT,
21 May 2026
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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.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
12 May 2026
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Instead, in much of popular culture, men often get messages encouraging them to be stoic and unemotional.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
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Your instinct may be to focus on logistics while avoiding your emotions… but unfortunately for you, this season is anything but stoic.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
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Richards gave millions of dollars to the cult, Eternal Values, while living a double life as both a globe-trotting supermodel and obedient cult member, as reported in a recent story in The Hollywood Reporter.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2026
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The Flaws are the typical employees of a German government office – quiet, obedient and spectacularly bad at their jobs.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
8 June 2026
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That is the bargain of passive investing working exactly as designed.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Send a passive rover up a loose, sandy slope steeper than 15 degrees, and it will likely get stuck, spin its wheels, or risk a catastrophic tip-over.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
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That amendment had been made a dead letter by Jim Crow state legislatures and an acquiescent Supreme Court.—
Robert D. Bland,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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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
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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