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tolerance

noun as in fortitude, grit

noun as in open-mindedness

noun as in fortitude

noun as in resistance

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Example Sentences

They have a remarkable tolerance for crass and bullying behavior, care little for empathy and ethics, and are incapable of weighing basic facts about public life.

From Salon

It confounds an idea that the nation’s biggest cities, with their prosperity, opportunity, diversity, social tolerance, public services, and community institutions, are immune to the alienation and pessimism that Trump galvanized in “left-behind” rural areas eight years ago.

From Slate

But if the park survives in some form after his death, perhaps through a successor with a similarly high tolerance for debt, he would like a small plaque with his name in the front — “a small piece of evidence that I lived here on this earth.”

Miller, a former speechwriter and campaign advisor to Trump who worked closely with the former president in the White House during Trump’s first term, was a key architect of Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies, including a travel ban that reduced the number of refugees accepted to the U.S. from Muslim-majority countries and the separation of migrant children from their parents.

Homan played a role in Trump’s controversial "zero tolerance" policy, which separated thousands of migrant children from their parents.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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