acquiesce
Frequently Asked Questions
- They are threatening to terminate the contract if we don’t acquiesce to the new terms.
- If you were to ask politely, I would be inclined to acquiesce.
- I’m afraid they will never acquiesce, regardless of what offer we make.
Example Sentences
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If she knows you are willing to acquiesce to such a significant demand, it will be unlikely to end there.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
Like others, he felt he had little choice but to acquiesce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Amodei said on Thursday he would rather stop working with the Pentagon than acquiesce to such threats.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
The social compact that endured since that trauma was that Iranians would acquiesce to hardship and restrictions in return for a strong state that protects them from foreign attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
She seemed not only to acquiesce, to be reconciled to her life and marriage, but to be actually proud of it.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
So the girl acquiesces and, in the next episode, we watch the dentist go to work on Evans’ mouth.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
He will hope the new leader acquiesces to his plea to be allowed to remain in the job until next May.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
When Haider acquiesces to his dad’s expectations — he finds a job, and his wife is forced out of hers — the entire home’s stability comes tumbling down.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
My son acquiesces to her to avoid arguments.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
And Jack's wife acquiesces in his self-imposed servitude.
From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Simeon Strunsky
He wanted to avoid the mistakes he thought prosecutors had made, chief among them, in his view: They were so eager to show Blake’s motive that they acquiesced to the harsh portrayal of the victim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Moscow acquiesced to the Chinese yuan to be the primary currency for a planned regional-development bank covering Central Asia, known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He made a case to your grandmother to reduce your inheritance to 10% from one-third and she acquiesced.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
The Motion Picture Association and the U.S. ambassador to Canada had pressed the country to change the policy, and the government acquiesced late Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
“No,” he acquiesced: “I heard it had happened very lately. I was rather on the lookout for good fortune then.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
You could forgive sellers who end up acquiescing and agreeing to the “old” rates, in the hope that they ultimately get a higher price for their home.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
Big banks have already been acquiescing to Musk’s unusual demands, including paying up front for Grok subscriptions, thus juicing SpaceX’s flagging A.I. revenue.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
And pushed back again when the team insisted and said where to do it, saying: "I'll tell you when we're going to swap" before eventually acquiescing.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Sewell said he felt Andrew’s self-image was “dependent on the other party acquiescing to the idea that he is the prince.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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