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acceptance

[ak-sep-tuhns, ik-] / ækˈsɛp təns, ɪk- /




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West didn’t just embody feminist fat acceptance; she made it cool and brought it to the masses.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

"When I got my acceptance letter, I was like, 'oh my gosh, is this actually happening?'"

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

However, the follow-up replication studies struggled to gain acceptance from those same journals.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

None have been nearly good enough to achieve mass-market acceptance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

This possible growth depends on a number of factors we cannot control, including crime rates and sentencing patterns in various jurisdictions and acceptance of privatization.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander