tolerate
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By making certain stress-related genes easier to activate, early adversity may leave the brain more reactive and less able to tolerate future stress.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
During your working years, you tolerate the weather where you live because that’s where your job happens to be.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
What it didn’t want was for his funeral to revive memories of an era when Chinese leaders were more willing to tolerate candor, debate and a measure of independence from the party line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
For the study, a US team led by researchers at Stanford University sought to estimate how often human-caused global warming will push temperatures to levels that elderly people cannot tolerate.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
His stomach was not going to tolerate this ride much longer.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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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
“We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” he said.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026
In Hecox, it may resolve the case on mootness grounds or reaffirm that intermediate scrutiny tolerates generalizations even when they imperfectly fit at the margins.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
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
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The mayor has said that antisemitism will never be tolerated in New York City and that he is mayor for all New Yorkers, including members of the Jewish communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nacua isn’t tolerated for his talent; he’s adored for his spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Any conduct that potentially threatens the safety of a protectee will not be tolerated," Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
While slavery is banned under its 1945 constitution, written when the country broke free from Dutch colonial rule, some traditional customs are tolerated.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mother took hold of her hand and also mine—something I would not have tolerated in the slightest back home in Bethlehem.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
In a nation fed up with leaders seen as tolerating or colluding with organized crime, Manzo, 40, stood out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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
In tolerating social freedoms, the regime is granting Iranians concessions that don’t threaten the survival of the system, say analysts and activists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
To prepare for this eventuality, he ruled the house strictly according to tribal law, tolerating no deviance, particularly from his children.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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