tolerance
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After 77 years of intervals of tolerance alternating with intervals of repression, official statistics acknowledge 44 million registered Christians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Glasgow is a multicultural and diverse city, and there is usually a high level of tolerance," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"It's very unfortunate that Thailand has a very high tolerance for violence," says Boonwara Sumano at the Thailand Development Research Institute.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Obviously, your advisers are not really hearing that you have a very low risk tolerance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
I was bored, so it again confused me that she would pick this place, since Margo always struck me as a person with a very limited tolerance for boredom.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
The tourism sector is acutely susceptible to security issues, but "different tourists from different parts of the world have different risk tolerances," Bohl said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
The fit and finish were exemplary; and shutlines and panel gaps are precise to aerospace tolerances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Away from the AI mania, one of the most interesting things about this study was that advisers are apt to project their own risk tolerances onto their clients.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025
Dire wolves, native to Southern California but not limited to the region, were highly adaptable and had a very wide range of environmental tolerances before the species went extinct about 10,000 years ago, Lindsey said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
State and county officials are under no compulsion to follow the federal pesticides tolerances unless local laws happen to conform — and they seldom do.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing tolerance
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