accept
Example Sentences
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“The district is accepting additional measured risk — fiscal risk ... for the sake of protecting people, positions, workforce members.”
From Los Angeles Times
"We cannot accept there's a player playing in Europe's best competition and behaving like this," the France captain told reporters.
From Barron's
Gareth Fitzgerald, who spent £1,000 on his shares, accepts there is always a risk with this type of investing which would have been explained in the small print.
From BBC
The kind of explanation anyone else, casually glancing out a window, would have accepted without a second thought.
From Literature
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So it’s not up to Bree, and like a lot of people do, she’s decided to accept that her fiancé has this friend she hates.
From Los Angeles Times
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