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

"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

McAvoy says "walking the tightrope" between public acceptability and the dark self-obsessed "animal version of humanity" is what attracted him to the role.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

Let’s begin by comparing the acceptability of different inventions within the same society.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond