acceptability

Example Sentences

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It “requires the Court to make policy judgments … about the acceptability of the death penalty and who ‘deserves’ it.”

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

And sometimes he plays on the edge of acceptability.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 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

Universities have always had, and even embraced, the duty to draw the line between fact and fiction — to determine when an assertion or opinion falls below the line of intellectual acceptability.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 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