sufferable

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There's actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023

At 160 minutes and on a second encounter, “Bardo” is — how to put this? — sufferable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Religion helps make suffering sufferable, but so does science.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018

The parents argued about which city’s weather was less sufferable, D.C.’s or Haifa’s.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

And, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.