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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
This is very advantageous for fault tolerant, commercial scale systems.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
How to commemorate a religious sect that was unique, tolerant, forward-thinking, unjustly antagonized—but also short-lived, cultish, poorly documented, and fixated on fire and brimstone?
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Also assuming that humanity still exists, there will be an ever-increasing need not only to grow existing heat-tolerant crops, but to create new ones.
—New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2025
Lavender is drought-tolerant; overwatering is the most common cause of this herb's demise.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Dec. 2025
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
How to commemorate a religious sect that was unique, tolerant, forward-thinking, unjustly antagonized—but also short-lived, cultish, poorly documented, and fixated on fire and brimstone?
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Also assuming that humanity still exists, there will be an ever-increasing need not only to grow existing heat-tolerant crops, but to create new ones.
—New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2025
Lavender is drought-tolerant; overwatering is the most common cause of this herb's demise.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
Adjective
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There’s a sign on the door asking customers to be patient.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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The changes allow pharmacists to focus more on patient care while enhancing after-hours access, when 75% of testing and treatments occur.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 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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When legends who have left the public eye or dealt with illness pass away, there’s a sort of resigned expectation, but that wasn’t the case with Keaton, who worked all the way to the end before dying at 79.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The normally stoic Thibs let out a laugh.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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No paintings of stoic elders in headdresses.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The generals reduced even their limited need for an obedient prime minister.—
Mohammed Hanif,
Time,
1 Dec. 2025
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Since Francoism promoted an image of women as obedient wives and self-sacrificing mothers devoted to the Catholic family model, Republican women were demonized as immoral, dangerous and unworthy of motherhood.—
Zaya Rustamova,
The Conversation,
19 Nov. 2025
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This kind of passive hydration is especially important since dogs are reactive drinkers, only drinking once they’re already mildly dehydrated.—
Brian Higgins,
Outside,
30 Jan. 2026
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This auntie is not passive, occasionally stopping by to drop off gifts, take a few selfies, and leave before things get too real.—
Ashley Simpo,
Parents,
30 Jan. 2026
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As the right rises, Trump puts enemies on notice The Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela extends its broader crusade to assemble a column of allied — or at least acquiescent — governments in Latin America, sailing with the political winds blowing in much of the region.—
Megan Janetsky,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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With This is Gavin Newsom, the California governor is obviously working to position himself as some sort of aisle-bridging but Trump-antagonizing candidate, an acquiescent project that involves booking Steve Bannon one week and Ezra Klein the next.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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