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acquiesced
verb as in agree with some reluctance
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Example Sentences
Any perceived display of liberal bias was quickly attacked, so the media got the message and gradually acquiesced until liberals and their point of view were marginalized.
No administration would have dared, and no department official would have acquiesced.
Urged by the oversight board to seek an outside opinion, VA Secretary Denis McDonough acquiesced and retained Urban Land Institute to field a panel of experts to make recommendations.
De la Garza acquiesced and the pair shared a quick toast before taking their respective swigs.
If a court decides it can hear the case, it will often look to historical practice, upholding the president’s assertion of power if presidents have repeatedly exercised that power and Congress has acquiesced in that exercise.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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