tolerance
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In the next section, you spell out the core of any financial plan — your risk tolerance, what return you expect and your time horizon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Gaspar said he has no tolerance for human suffering or for encampments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
And that any moral indictments are the result of the subjects’ lack of self-awareness and a viewer’s lack of tolerance for entitled megalomania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Smith's appeal included a letter from his GP which said he had an "unlimited exercise tolerance".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
I immediately decided to throw out my meticulously planned lessons and make tolerance the core of my curriculum.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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“My agent will know the places I like, it will have insight into my finances, my budget, my risk tolerances, all my preferences from the kind of room I like to my pillow type.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The tourism sector is acutely susceptible to security issues, but "different tourists from different parts of the world have different risk tolerances," Bohl said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
But people have different risk tolerances, joys, skills and motivations.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
Dire wolves, native to Southern California but not limited to the region, were highly adaptable and had a very wide range of environmental tolerances before the species went extinct about 10,000 years ago, Lindsey said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
The first necessity is the elimination of tolerances on the chlorinated hydrocarbons, the organic phosphorus group, and other highly toxic chemicals.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Vocabulary lists containing tolerance
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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A Separate Peace
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