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View definitions for accepting

accepting

adjective as in acceptant

adjective as in believing

adjective as in forgiving

Weak match

adjective as in listening

adjective as in receiving

adjective as in using

noun as in getting

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“Lately, a lot of professional people have an opinion of what people should and shouldn’t do, what they should and shouldn’t like, how they should dress,” she said while accepting her award.

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In others, companies have been eating those costs and accepting lower profits, the Fed said.

To them, he is something to gawk at while patting themselves on the back for “accepting” him.

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A handful of schools—including Columbia, University of Chicago and Northwestern—started accepting something called a “Dialogues” report this fall from a peer-tutoring site.

GLAAD’s research suggests that audiences have become more accepting over the last 20 years due to watching diverse casts and stories.

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