acceptability
Example Sentences
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The tradition calls people to shed the performance of acceptability and live from a truer place.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
"As time goes on, more of a shared societal consensus may emerge about the acceptability of defendants' conduct."
From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025
He added that it "perfectly illustrates the fact that marine parks are an outdated industry with dropping acceptability" in society.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025
But there has undeniably been a recent movement among marginalized people to identify as monstrous—or at least to identify with the monstrous—as a way to celebrate stepping outside the borders of acceptability.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024
Let’s begin by comparing the acceptability of different inventions within the same society.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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