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Recent Examples of tolerantly
Maggie also smiles tolerantly when Hank keeps his hand on her knee for a few beats too many, or leans in close during chats.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerantly
Adverb
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When Mehta appeared on camera bouncing her newborn in her lap, that professor started laughing sympathetically.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2025
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The musicians standing with him smile sympathetically.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Harris compassionately explored these issues that many women faced later in life — and which rarely went represented on television.—
Time,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Each was compassionately euthanized Thursday.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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These days, Christmas movies, broadly and charitably defined, seem to be synonymous with the brassy, hokey, sickly sweet sort of fare that has a permanent home on the Hallmark Channel and is in perpetual rotation on Netflix.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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In effect, this is just a trope of mondo films — or, less charitably, mockumentaries.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Her team now plans to test ways to safely and humanely reduce the invasive rat population around bat hibernation spots, like the cave in Bad Segeberg.—
NPR,
NPR,
8 Nov. 2025
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To make new plantings a little more pest-proof, experiment with repellent sprays, like putrid egg solids, hot pepper spray, and humanely sourced predator spray.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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By Sunday, he was gone, a mercifully swift ending to painfully slow decline.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
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The fabric is high-quality, luxuriously soft to the touch, and, mercifully, resistant to staining.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Vance Joseph tried outfitting himself in a modest tone, even if his unit hasn’t exactly acted benevolently toward its training camp counterpart.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
5 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Officials in Jackson County and Kansas City took the loss cordially, but continued to pitch themselves as potential partners, criticizing the high price tag of the Kansas stadium deal.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
23 Dec. 2025
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In 2019, she was also cordially invited to The White House's 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.—
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Tolerantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerantly. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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