acceptably

Example Sentences

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It’s a negotiating tactic designed to ensure that billions of dollars of investment in North American infrastructure remains acceptably profitable.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Kate, picking through her desk drawers, finds sufficient articles to improvise an outfit for the new chief executive, one that makes her look acceptably, if temporarily, elegant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

In addition, the water may be acceptably safe one day, but not on another.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2025

According to the Mayor’s Management Report, which covers the first six months of Adams’ term, the number of streets rated acceptably clean declined by 4% compared with the same period a year earlier.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

They kept it going, for I simply did not know which subjects I could acceptably bring up.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin