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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
Several proteins produced by Heimdall microbes are similar to eukaryotic proteins that process oxygen to efficiently generate energy, suggesting that at least some ancient Asgards may have been oxygen-tolerant.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
Even the tolerant Dutch Republic fell to Calvinist zealots during destructive invasions of the 1670s and purged its universities of Enlightenment thinkers.
—Johan Norberg, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2026
Pearl acacias are drought tolerant; too much water can kill them.
—The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
For example, a recent study of ours in Montana found that an increasing majority of residents, 74% in 2023, are tolerant or very tolerant of wolves.
—Justin Angle, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
Even the tolerant Dutch Republic fell to Calvinist zealots during destructive invasions of the 1670s and purged its universities of Enlightenment thinkers.
—Johan Norberg, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2026
Pearl acacias are drought tolerant; too much water can kill them.
—The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
For example, a recent study of ours in Montana found that an increasing majority of residents, 74% in 2023, are tolerant or very tolerant of wolves.
—Justin Angle, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
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This progress is an important step toward personalized medicine, helping make surgical practice as accurate as possible to improve patient outcomes.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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Stedman lands every blow thanks to her patient accumulation of ordinary life, the shearing and mustering and fence-mending, the slow mapping of relationships that ensures each loss registers as something more than plot machinery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 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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Veterinarian Nick Trout treats, and fails, stoic Maverick.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
8 Mar. 2026
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Sure, Gyeong-nam is outwardly stoic and hard to read, but his tsundere trajectory and the office romance setting of his romance with Mi-rae are their own polished tropes.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
6 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 audience would do well to stay attuned to this goal — and how obedient Nat is willing to be.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The submarine attempts to sneakily move in close to its target undetected using passive sonar, and attack up close where the target has less chance of evading.—
James Dwyer,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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But running through even two or three of them shifts you from passive label reader to active evaluator.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 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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That amendment had been made a dead letter by Jim Crow state legislatures and an acquiescent Supreme Court.—
Robert D. Bland,
The Conversation,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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