acceptance
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A pivotal moment early in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” arrives when Harry’s suburban house is swarmed and flooded with letters of acceptance for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, had a 52% acceptance rate for its class starting in fall 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
John Marfield, Berkeley’s director of undergraduate admissions, said some unpredictability around enrollment means wait-list acceptance rates fluctuate.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
In his acceptance speech, he joked: "Was I good? Was I really - or were the other celebrities just thick?!"
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism—with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it—could never have reconciled itself to.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing acceptance
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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Althea Gibson Article and "Roberto Clemente’s Gifts from the Heart"
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"CLEP Principles of Management," Vocabulary from Chapter 3
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