tolerate

Example Sentences

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People have become habituated to this, tolerate it, factor it in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“I mean, once you start saying you’re going to tolerate 2%, that compounds pretty dramatically over time—and you’re saying to people if you’re getting less than 2% on your money, you’re going backwards.”

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

They also highlighted an additional 24 planets within a more restrictive 3D habitable zone, based on tighter assumptions about how much heat a planet can tolerate before becoming uninhabitable.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

A spokesman told the Financial Times that it did not "tolerate any administration official illegally profiteering off of insider knowledge".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

But Gran didn’t tolerate ideas like evolution or the big bang theory, despite the evidence.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas