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prove acceptable

VERB

pass muster

Synonyms

WEAK

come through with flying colors come up to scratch come up to snuff cut the mustard do credit to fill the bill find favor with get by make it make the cut make the grade measure up meet with approval pass pass inspection recommend itself satisfy requirements stand the test stand up suffice

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Outgoing Transport Minister Pierre Mehaignerie and former European Parliament President Simone Veil hinted at possible support for a Socialist government in the future if its policies prove acceptable.

From Time Magazine Archive

The repugnant proposal to permit States to dispense liquor will never prove acceptable.

From Time Magazine Archive

The challenge will be whether his vision--"a community of mutual respect and interdependence"--will prove acceptable to the basement revolutionaries and the Vatican enforcers at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the second edition the author states that he hopes the poem will prove acceptable as a reading-book for schools.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

Mr. Nicholls’s successor did not prove acceptable to Mr. Brontë.

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

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