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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
Native to East Africa, this drought-tolerant plant doesn't need a lot of attention, tolerating underwatering and a variety of light conditions.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
Heat tolerant and a good selection for southern-facing foundation beds.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
This variety is heat-tolerant and typically ripens later in summer, from July to August, says McCabe.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.
—Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
Heat tolerant and a good selection for southern-facing foundation beds.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
This variety is heat-tolerant and typically ripens later in summer, from July to August, says McCabe.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.
—Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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Class action lawsuits, fragmented billing and steep regulatory fines due to patient privacy breaches and other issues often result in tens to hundreds of millions of dollars of losses.—
Jeffrey Tully,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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The audit couldn’t explore the impact of the delays on patient survival rates, because federal patient privacy laws make collecting such data a major challenge, according to the audit and fire officials.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Neither is the machine that, partway through the play, noisily turns the stage into a great berg of foam, which slowly subsumes a resigned Kramer.—
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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The album’s 20 songs are the resigned and rueful sound of him making amends with his obscurity, and his larger place in the universe.—
Jayson Greene,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
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Golden remained stoic, though clearly shaken.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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My sister, who is a doctor and usually the stoic one, wept.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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Her son, Navaraj, is obedient and dutiful.—
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
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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 number appears in studies and policy briefs with clinical neutrality, as if time were a passive variable in a complex system.—
Sarah Berg,
STAT,
26 Mar. 2026
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The passive isolation is fair, providing the earbuds with a strong foundation for ANC.—
Mark Knapp,
PC Magazine,
26 Mar. 2026
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Trump and his top aides have been inconsistent in their messaging on their goals for the war, vacillating between calls for regime change and far shorter ambitions, such as an Islamic Republic that remains in power under leadership more acquiescent to the United States.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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Don’t ask the Constitution to tame a reckless president supported by a cravenly acquiescent Congress.—
Clive Crook,
Twin Cities,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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