accepting
Example Sentences
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"There were moments people didn't understand... every step, story and silence in-between brought me to this moment," the Surrey-born rapper said while accepting the award.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
But they land in the same place of accepting its inevitability.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
"We don't accept anything less than perfect, otherwise we're accepting greater risk," NASA's former chief astronaut Peggy Whitson told AFP.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Few of these bets paid off, so the oddsmakers were seen less as clairvoyants than reliable indicators of who wouldn’t be accepting a medal in Stockholm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
He noted that instead of accepting Aristotle’s proof of God, the Muslim scholars turned to the atomists, Aristotle’s old rivals, whose doctrine, though out of favor, managed to survive the ravages of time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
