acceptability

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The researchers also raised concerns about safety, noting that fewer than half of the treatments had been assessed for acceptability, tolerability, or adverse events.

From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025

"As time goes on, more of a shared societal consensus may emerge about the acceptability of defendants' conduct."

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

Verstappen is a controversial character who takes things to the edge of acceptability - and sometimes beyond - on track.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

But there has undeniably been a recent movement among marginalized people to identify as monstrous—or at least to identify with the monstrous—as a way to celebrate stepping outside the borders of acceptability.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

I have someone to sit with—that counts as a step up on the ladder of social acceptability.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson