acceptability

Example Sentences

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The outreach, widely seen as unusual for a senior Meitei leader during the conflict, could have helped broaden his acceptability among Kuki-Zo legislators, say analysts.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

It “requires the Court to make policy judgments … about the acceptability of the death penalty and who ‘deserves’ it.”

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

"As time goes on, more of a shared societal consensus may emerge about the acceptability of defendants' conduct."

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

Universities have always had, and even embraced, the duty to draw the line between fact and fiction — to determine when an assertion or opinion falls below the line of intellectual acceptability.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

Olmsted had intended the report for a professional audience, one that would take for granted Jackson Park’s fundamental acceptability and value the report as an unflinching guide to the challenges ahead.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson