tolerable
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The promise is that the drugs could provide a new option for patients whose disease progresses after treatment with older drugs targeting the same mutations, and with more tolerable side effects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
It trades at a tolerable valuation level—just over 17 times next 12 months aggregate earnings that analysts forecast, according to FactSet.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Not because spices make cheap food merely tolerable, but because they’re often the difference between a meal that feels like compromise and one you genuinely crave again a few days later.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
She became the woman who, more than perhaps any one other person, made California’s air tolerable, if not technically healthy, and revved up the state’s climate and greenhouse gas policies.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
That’s where we stayed until the end of the war, and those trees stand in my memory for the turning of our life in camp, from the outrageous to the tolerable.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Vocabulary lists containing tolerable
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Farewell to Manzanar
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