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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
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The investigation has resulted in Wallace being charged with concealment of death from unnatural causes, patient abuse and neglect and felony assault of an individual with disabilities, police said.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Nov. 2025
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His focus was on treating her as an individual and patient, not as a statistic.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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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
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The Cowboys are only .500, and the expectations for this team from their resigned fan base are so low that a playoff appearance will qualify as a good year.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Oct. 2025
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Contestants not only looked the part, but also acted the part of the coach who at times is stoic and fiery.—
Victor Jacobo,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The skeletal trees, stripped of their summer green and fiery autumn leaves, stand in a white shroud of snow like stoic models of resilience and grace.—
Thomas Cangelosi,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2026
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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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The rise of passive investing In 1975, banker John Bogle founded an investment product that would change the world.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
7 Nov. 2025
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The design features two passive decay heat removal systems.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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The president has been calling aggressively for lower rates and a more acquiescent Fed.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
17 Sep. 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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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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