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as in obedience
a readiness or willingness to accept or adapt to a given circumstance
She eventually reached an acceptance of her mother's sometimes challenging eccentricities.
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as in approval
permission given to do something
They had a fancy dinner to celebrate his acceptance to Columbia University.
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Recent Examples of acceptance
Within the industry, this perspective has been slow to gain acceptance.
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Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Research has consistently shown that heterosexual women are more comfortable with homosexuality than heterosexual men, whose acceptance drops sharply when intimacy involves other men.
—Jennifer Obel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
While Obama’s campaign attempted to hold another open-air acceptance in 2012, weather delays forced eventgoers inside.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026
Everyone loves the smell of a winner and getting to go on stage and give inspirational acceptances can really build momentum.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acceptance
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English wasn’t tied to the same expectations of obedience, modesty, or loyalty.—
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The post-Super movies have more complex, contradictory characters but less ambiguity about what’s right (egalitarian societies in which every citizen has a voice) and what’s wrong (cultlike obedience to fascistic belief systems that have no interest in anything but domination and self-enrichment).—
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Warner possesses valuable European sports rights that would require government approvals to sell.—
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Several Japanese companies, including Toyota, are investing roughly $7 billion (1 trillion yen) in local battery production, supported by government certifications such as METI approval for domestic manufacturing of solid-state batteries.—
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Passage of this resolution was tantamount to acquiescence by Congress, granting the president the authority to respond militarily by sending thousands of troops to fight in Vietnam.—
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Despite that goal, the Utah Legislature’s Republican supermajority, with Cox’s acquiescence, has taken a hard turn against solar power — which has been coming online faster than any other source in Utah and accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid.—
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Deciding to pause operations this year jeopardized Martin's accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission [HLC], an independent agency that certifies the quality of colleges and universities nationwide.—
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There are 34 organizations, including IEEE, that are ABET members and assist the nonprofit with setting policy, developing strategy, and conducting accreditation activities worldwide.—
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Landlords are responsible for upkeep and compliance.—
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Gabe Feldman, another Altius consultant, is a law professor at Tulane and the school’s associate provost for NCAA compliance.—
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The agreement includes bipartisan bills worked out by the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund parts of government — food aid, veterans programs and the legislative branch, among other things.—
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There’s near-universal agreement from all kinds of housing observers that the affordability crisis is one of (non)-supply and demand.—
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But for Coles, his indoctrination to law enforcement has been a different level of submissiveness.—
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In Killers of the Flower Moon, his Ernest Burkhart starts off as a mopey, weak-minded World War One veteran, eager to do anything for his godfather uncle (Robert De Niro), but there’s still a certain likability to his dim-bulb submissiveness.—
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Multiple people close to the situation had stated or speculated that an official request had been sent, and the president himself had said that Combs had asked for clemency, but Thursday’s report was the first official confirmation of the letter’s existence.—
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There was no immediate confirmation from Washington.—
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“Acceptance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acceptance. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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