acceptable
Example Sentences
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Not everyone agrees that on this occasion, the defence is acceptable.
From BBC
In an interview, Kelvin Coleman, who was head of FAA’s commercial space office during the launches, said his office determined that the risk from the mishaps “was within the acceptable limits of our regulations.”
From Salon
Full-fat dairy is encouraged, while butter and beef tallow are viewed as acceptable.
From Barron's
Theirs is not a conventionally acceptable relationship, as they discover when they wash ashore in separate places in an unfamiliar country where dinosaurs and human beings roam, the latter resembling 3rd or 4th century Celts.
From Salon
He writes that China doesn't have the "confidence that it can succeed at an acceptable cost".
From BBC
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