tolerable

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This compares with one in 95,435 for the section with a tolerable risk, where the rockface is set much further back from the path.

From BBC

Air travel in the US will return to a somewhat tolerable normal.

From BBC

Since taking power, Syria's new leaders have sought to break from their own violent extremist past, and present a moderate image more tolerable to ordinary Syrians and foreign powers.

From Barron's

"We say this defamatory, frankly puerile and infantile behaviour by a grown man in respect of these people was, and is, beyond the pale of what is tolerable in society and therefore characterised as criminal."

From BBC

Since taking power, Syria's new leaders have sought to break from their own radical Islamist past and present a moderate image more tolerable to ordinary Syrians and foreign powers.

From Barron's