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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
Until at least about the mid-1940s, this more permissive culture created a more tolerant climate, at least seasonally, for LGBTQ people, especially those who were white.
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Julio Capó Jr. / Made By History, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
My husband — a brooding New Yorker, polite and tolerant of much — broke on the seventh day of our family vacation.
—Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
The poet should be tolerant, disinterested, clear-eyed about long-standing animosities but not constrained by them.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
The latest headline print was 1.7% versus 10.1% during Truss’s premiership, which economists said would make markets more tolerant of fiscal expansion.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
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Julio Capó Jr. / Made By History, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
My husband — a brooding New Yorker, polite and tolerant of much — broke on the seventh day of our family vacation.
—Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
The poet should be tolerant, disinterested, clear-eyed about long-standing animosities but not constrained by them.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
The latest headline print was 1.7% versus 10.1% during Truss’s premiership, which economists said would make markets more tolerant of fiscal expansion.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
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While this impact may take time to filter through the market, for patient investors who understand the current opportunities in undervalued bottles and casks, this more measured market environment could prove advantageous.Mark Littler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Be patient with yourself and keep your eyes on the prize!Kyle Thomas, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Crowds gathering for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival on the sprawling palace grounds reached into backpacks for umbrellas with the resigned look of people attending a supremely English occasion designed to be held in sunshine.Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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The second-year Chicago Bears cornerback let out a resigned sigh and laugh.Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024
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Weekly Newsletter In place of a stoic effort to avoid the influence of emotion, thirteenth-century thinkers including Thomas Aquinas sought to use reason to direct the passions correctly, turning them into tools for self-improvement.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 25 Nov. 2024
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Gladstone has come to specialize in playing close-to-the-vest types, women who can be secretive and watchful but are hardly stoic or repressed.Dana Stevens, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
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Of course, anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2024
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The ultimate guide to earning passive income online Kristof’s recommendation is research firm Prolific, which pays participants a minimum of $8 per hour to fill out surveys for AI firms and universities, according to its site.Megan Sauer, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
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Another senior official said the Pentagon had been too passive in the face the growing threat.Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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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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The young man’s comment was out of line, and my silence felt somehow acquiescent.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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“Tolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerant. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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