be acceptable
Example Sentences
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Moving it forward, the race is still likely to be wet, but the hope is the conditions will be acceptable for running the cars.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
As this barbershop bystander made clear, for the first time, only a prediction of another championship would be acceptable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
While Fairweather thinks that legal guardianships and conservatorships can be necessary, she emphasized that they would only be acceptable in “extremely severe cases with really good oversight.”
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Their product was purchased and had to be acceptable to every newspaper in the country—liberal and conservative, big city and small.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
I will be saved then, I will be acceptable once more.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
