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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
Sure, younger generations are tolerant of colorful language.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Consider allowing drought tolerant grasses to go dormant during dry weather.
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—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
One hypothesis suggested that early alligators were saltwater tolerant and then later lost the trait.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Consider allowing drought tolerant grasses to go dormant during dry weather.
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—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
One hypothesis suggested that early alligators were saltwater tolerant and then later lost the trait.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
Adjective
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These tasks obviously require patient interaction, customization and hands-on adjustments that AI cannot fully automate.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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But Stewart, who reviewed patient files and testimony from mental health professionals and spoke with staff and people in custody, found such efforts were falling short.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2025
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His resigned air in the press conference felt like a man who had too much to juggle to cross over the line first.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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In recent weeks, a number of artists canceled planned appearances and resigned positions associated with the center.—
Julia Jacobs,
New York Times,
24 Mar. 2025
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Researchers say that because boys still face the expectation to be stoic, their struggles more often show up in their behavior.—
Claire Cain Miller,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Josh Duhamel portrays Staten Kirkland, a stoic rancher fighting to save his family’s land and legacy in the Netflix drama series Ransom Canyon.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The output is shared between a 1.25-inch tweeter, a 2.5-inch woofer and a a 2-inch passive radiator.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The first is that the arms holding the rotors have been shaped into slim airfoils capable of generating some passive lift at cruise speed.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 May 2025
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Where Chelsea’s domestic overseers have been largely acquiescent to their accounting ingenuity, the same can’t be said abroad.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Netanyahu appears convinced that his country’s security, along with his own political survival, depends on prolonging the military offensives and keeping both Gaza and Lebanon ungovernable, and therefore acquiescent.—
Mohanad Hage Ali,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Nov. 2024
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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