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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 Oklahoma, the leaves are deeply lobed, resistant to leaf scorch, and tolerant of high pH soils.
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Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
In a warming world, everyone’s looking for drought-tolerant plants.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Midwest Living, 1 May 2026
Rampart’s damage-tolerant design and payload flexibility are intended to support operations where aircraft may be lost without compromising overall mission effectiveness.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
Once established, however, the picture changes as California sycamores are drought-tolerant, not long after being planted in the garden.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
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Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
In a warming world, everyone’s looking for drought-tolerant plants.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Midwest Living, 1 May 2026
Rampart’s damage-tolerant design and payload flexibility are intended to support operations where aircraft may be lost without compromising overall mission effectiveness.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
Once established, however, the picture changes as California sycamores are drought-tolerant, not long after being planted in the garden.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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What happens when staying in school is no longer the sentimental choice, or the patient choice, but the best business decision available?—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed excluding diagnoses added by an insurer who merely reviews patient records but never actually sees the patient.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
30 Apr. 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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Her booking photo shows a woman with a tousled bun, hollow cheeks and a resigned expression.—
Raheem Hosseini,
San Francisco Chronicle,
20 Feb. 2026
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Her back stiffens, and her usually stoic face is visibly gripped by fear.—
Joy Press,
Vanity Fair,
28 Apr. 2026
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While his son battled against Fonseca Sunday night, his father sat stoic and alone — no hometown entourage in sight — in the courtside players’ box.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Just think of all those vacant Madonnas, structurally perfect compositions, and obedient daydreams of antiquity.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Always obedient, Agnes happily welcomes Daisy despite Shu’s warnings.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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On the other hand, the passive material (a soft elastomer) remains stationary.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
1 May 2026
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The Amp powers passive speakers, while the Port cannot.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 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 7 May. 2026.
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