tolerate

Mathias Clasen, the author of A Very Nervous Person’s Guide to Horror Movies, explains how jumpscares work, and how you can learn to love them—or at least tolerate them.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

While passports have security features such as watermarks and electronic ID chips, Porter says, "we tolerate a £10 number plate with no security mechanism on it".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

That’s a loss most other restaurants wouldn’t tolerate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

He and his father prefer spicy food, but the rest of Avelar’s family can’t tolerate as much heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Perhaps a Gethenian, being singularly complete, feels telepathic speech as a violation of completeness, a breach of integrity hard for him to tolerate.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenter: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Building a resilient portfolio that tolerates inflation is a good start.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

They are asking for individualized exceptions to a rule the law already tolerates.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026

MIT engineers have created a new aluminum alloy that can be 3D printed, tolerates extreme heat, and reaches strength levels far beyond conventional aluminum.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.

From "1984" by George Orwell

"Such behavior should not be tolerated in the civilized world," Presidential Office spokeswoman Karen Kuo said in a statement, thanking US judicial authorities for "their assistance and protection of our citizens."

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Gen. Harmeet Dhillon said the campus had tolerated an “appalling hostile educational environment” for Jewish and Israeli students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Companies tolerated these intrusions because the finances of their businesses were still good enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The drug was generally well tolerated, and the critically ill patients in the trial lived longer than patients receiving standard treatments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

He had suppressed the urge for weeks because he knew it would not be tolerated by the scythe.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Souvenir collecting is often a solo sport, with spouses and other travel partners tolerating it or quietly culling the collection when no one’s looking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Executives were presented with a menu of options ranging from temporary shutdowns for repairs while essentially tolerating ongoing oil theft, to halting production for years to fully tackle the problem.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien's clip went viral and triggered a backlash that led to his arrest in Singapore, which has a reputation for not tolerating bad behaviour.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

While her affection for Kermit is true, the great joke of their affair is that he’s often portrayed as tolerating her instead of providing the full worship she demands – nay, deserves.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

In fact, Danes have more in common with Jamaicans when it comes to tolerating ambiguity than they do with some of their European peers.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell