tolerance
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Over time, patients often develop tolerance, meaning they need increasingly higher doses to achieve the same level of relief.
From Science Daily
These responses signal improving price tolerance and even suggest there could be room for further price increases in both regions.
From Barron's
“At this stage, once the business has grown, our risk tolerance is much higher.”
Together, these findings suggest that birds and other animals, including human ancestors, may have evolved a tolerance for and sometimes even a preference for alcohol.
From Science Daily
And that tolerance for discomfort matters for reasons that go way beyond the accuracy of AI.
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