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Recent Examples of tolerant Some plants are more drought tolerant than others and not all areas of the yard will have the same water needs. Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024 While Meta has continued spending billions of dollars on the virtual and augmented reality technologies needed to underpin the futuristic concept of the metaverse, investors have become more tolerant of the investments as long as the company’s core ad business remains healthy. Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024 Clearly, the two men are supposed to represent competing visions of Britishness: the one tolerant and outward-looking, drawing on the country’s rich heritage as a way to move the culture forward, the other entitled and small-minded, invested in the past only as a tool of propaganda. Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 Before the hurricane, being less tolerant and more aggressive wasn’t related to a monkey’s chances of survival every year. Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tolerant 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerant
Adjective
  • This increase is attributed to changes in occupancy, patient mix, and Medicaid rates.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Integrated tracking provides insights to fuel further optimization toward business KPIs like first consult and patient conversion rates.
    Bahram Moshrefnoory, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • The second-year Chicago Bears cornerback let out a resigned sigh and laugh.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is known for his stoic public face.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
  • This is a revenge story, as classical in its arc as True Grit or Kill Bill, and Taylor-Joy holds the film’s rage and bloodlust in her tiny frame and stoic face.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.
    Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Of course, anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The main speaker is for the left-hand channel and the satellite speaker which is just a passive version of the main speaker, connects via a length of speaker cable that’s secured with spring clips on each box.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Learn how to earn passive income online, master your money, ace your job interview and salary negotiations, and become an effective communicator.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 30 Nov. 2024.

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