acceptability

Example Sentences

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The tradition calls people to shed the performance of acceptability and live from a truer place.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

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

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

Dr. Kenji Sakuma, another researcher of the group stated, "Our network meta-analysis also evaluated acceptability, tolerability, and safety profiles in each protocol."

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

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

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