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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
While watermelon plants are generally tolerant of humidity, diseases can thrive under wet and humid conditions.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
His lab is working on heat-tolerant materials like silicon nitride and titanium nitride, aiming for a sail that can withstand temperatures of around 1,000 degrees Celsius (that's 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) for long enough to pull off a sun-dive.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Everyone’s tolerant of each other.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 31 May 2026
Oleander is exceptionally heat and drought tolerant and even handles poor soils.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
His lab is working on heat-tolerant materials like silicon nitride and titanium nitride, aiming for a sail that can withstand temperatures of around 1,000 degrees Celsius (that's 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) for long enough to pull off a sun-dive.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Everyone’s tolerant of each other.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 31 May 2026
Oleander is exceptionally heat and drought tolerant and even handles poor soils.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
Adjective
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The tracker takes heat illness data from patient complaints and doctor diagnoses provided by a countywide monitoring project that was previously available only to public health officials.—
Blanca Begert,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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The initiative standardizes and pays for a range of services, including remote patient monitoring, home meal delivery, and mobile obstetric services.—
Mary C. Mayhew,
Sun Sentinel,
4 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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The previously stoic pope is drawing huge crowds and seems to be making a star turn, enthralling the faithful with emotive assurance.—
Anthony Faiola,
Washington Post,
7 June 2026
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Golf is a game that can bring out a wide array of emotions from even the most stoic of competitors.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
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How might Infantino continue to profess neutrality while still clearly taking a side, pretending to listen to every voice while remaining obedient to only one?—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
7 June 2026
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These stories usually involve a woman shucking societal norms of being nice, pretty, and obedient.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Artisan workshop travel is reshaping how curious travelers spend their time abroad — swapping passive sightseeing for hands-on hours at a potter’s wheel, a loom or a perfumer’s bench.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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In this process, users were no longer passive observers of the web but active contributors to the web.—
Steve Paulussen,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
28 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 11 Jun. 2026.
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