as in obedience
a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others
good manners demanded our cheerful acquiescence to our host's plans for dinner
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Recent Examples of acquiescence
Any group decision comes with a degree of acquiescence and a leap of faith.
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David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Would-be autocrats create environments of fear and powerlessness, using intimidation, overwhelming force or political and legal attacks, and other coercive tactics to force acquiescence and chill democratic pushback.
—Shelley Inglis, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2025
Yet, the lesson of the Voting Rights Act is that the response to these setbacks isn’t despair or acquiescence.
—Time, 12 Sep. 2025
This lack of callout could be construed as a form of acquiescence that the delusion is apt.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquiescence
Noun
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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).—
Noun
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Convening a special session without the governor’s assent requires the support of two-thirds of lawmakers in the House and Senate.—
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So, yes, as unworkable as this plan might seem for the Palestinian group, a Hamas assent is entirely plausible.—
Noun
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Proxy advisors will continue to play a role, but their influence will no longer be supported by blind deference.—
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His pretensions—riding around in a grand coach and continuing the weekly levees—as well as his administration’s notorious effort to enforce deference in the 1798 Sedition Act, fell flat.—
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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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“Acquiescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquiescence. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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