as in obedience
a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others
good manners demanded our cheerful acquiescence to our host's plans for dinner
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Recent Examples of acquiescence
Maintaining dialogue without setting conditions or applying leverage can easily slip into acquiescence.
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Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
All the coordination in the world couldn't have forced Biden to withdraw without his acquiescence.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2024
In short order, though, she was tasked with adjudicating the initial collection of evidence from Mar-a-Lago, earning a rebuke from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for her acquiescence to arguments made by Trump’s legal team.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
Charting a middle path between aggression and acquiescence holds the best hope of limiting the risk of a conflict in the South China Sea.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
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Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
All the coordination in the world couldn't have forced Biden to withdraw without his acquiescence.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2024
In short order, though, she was tasked with adjudicating the initial collection of evidence from Mar-a-Lago, earning a rebuke from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for her acquiescence to arguments made by Trump’s legal team.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
Charting a middle path between aggression and acquiescence holds the best hope of limiting the risk of a conflict in the South China Sea.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for acquiescence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquiescence
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And there’s nuances to all this, but without boring you to death, this is basically one big whatcha-gonna-do-bout-it by a president who demands nothing less than complete obedience.Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
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In March 1856, Little Thunder was forced to shake hands with Harney, who had summoned leaders of the seven Lakota bands to Fort Pierre, in South Dakota, to dictate his terms for peace—essentially, obedience and docility.Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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But a 21-day cease-fire was brokered by France and the United States in September, only for Israel to almost immediately reverse its initial assent.Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2024
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New macOS Permissions Even before Sequoia, macOS was already a needy operating system, regularly seeking assent to let apps or services behave in certain ways.Barry Collins, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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And as Musk and Ramaswamy noted in their explanation of how DOGE will function, the incoming Trump administration has something new at its disposal: the recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the landmark case that overturned Chevron deference.Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
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The researchers emphasize that the ship’s skeletal remains were treated with deference.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Acquiescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquiescence. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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