tolerance

Example Sentences

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"Everything has to be reviewed from the ground up with one objective: zero tolerance."

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Over time, patients often develop tolerance, meaning they need increasingly higher doses to achieve the same level of relief.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

But a lot of judges have hit the absolute outer boundaries of their tolerance for this.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

And that tolerance for discomfort matters for reasons that go way beyond the accuracy of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

You think it was easy sitting through all that tolerance education, learning every day that the bad thing I did was a thousand times worse than I thought it was?

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman