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Oatmeal cake was a tolerable idea, but the possibility of kipper cake made them gag.

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Spending a night or two outdoors in a securely pitched tent was a tolerable idea, but thunder?

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This compares with one in 95,435 for the section with a tolerable risk, where the rockface is set much further back from the path.

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Air travel in the US will return to a somewhat tolerable normal.

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Since taking power, Syria's new leaders have sought to break from their own violent extremist past, and present a moderate image more tolerable to ordinary Syrians and foreign powers.

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

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