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accommodate

[uh-kom-uh-deyt] / əˈkɒm əˌdeɪt /




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Increasingly, the debate is over whether to accommodate a parent’s preferences.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Countries must implement policies that encourage informal-sector workers to register with the tax authorities, facilitate access to financing and create infrastructure needed to accommodate small entrepreneurs.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

History accumulates faster than collective memory can accommodate it.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

They were among more than 100 employees of Smosh Productions, which this spring moved into the 32,000-square-foot facility, from a much smaller location in the city, to accommodate their programming needs.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

To make vacations affordable, at public auction the Warden bought a bus that, oddly enough, had once been a mobile TB clinic, with a turret-like bulge in its roof to accommodate an X-ray machine.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

She said the company makes it easy to modify reservations, and that it accommodates various luggage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

A rules-based framework accommodates a productivity boom automatically.

From MarketWatch May 8, 2026

Its legal framework already accommodates this approach by distinguishing between several types of property, including small homes, large apartment buildings, and commercial property.

From Barron's Apr. 17, 2026

Addiewell, the only privately run jail in Scotland, can hold just short of 800 prisoners and accommodates convicted adult male prisoners and men on remand.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2026

Sometimes we go out to a restaurant in the Atlanta Underground, or see a film at a theater that accommodates his wheelchair.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Iran responded by firing drones and ballistic missiles at Bahrain and Kuwait, which host U.S. bases and have accommodated the U.S. military throughout the war, according to a senior U.S. official.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

From one world-class facility to another, the SFA pushed the boat out again to secure the 52,000 square foot Atrium Health Performance Park, which previously accommodated Real Madrid and Inter Milan.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

It restores Douglass to a living continuum of dissent rather than isolating him as an exceptional voice, and it underscores how fully the Fourth of July once accommodated, even invited, fierce moral criticism from within.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

They have accommodated me with a hotel, but I don’t have access to basic amenities like laundry or a kitchen, and it’s been a significant amount of time.

From MarketWatch May 5, 2026

When he reached for the gearshift the boy in front accommodated him by swinging his hairless knees out of the way.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

That's despite pressure on the EU to show more flexibility when it comes to accommodating allies, considering the turbulent times we live in.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Things that are hearty and comforting, endlessly accommodating and somehow greater than the sum of their decidedly humble parts.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

And his fiery temper, igniting at every possible moment with his older and more accommodating bandmates, turns this snapshot of history into genuine tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

This place has an odd, accommodating kinship with these prehistoric monsters, a willingness to coexist rather than eliminate what would kill us.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Now if only Robert’s brothers woald be so accommodating.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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