not countenance
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"They are important for businesses and particularly publishers. The Prime Minister would not countenance seeing Saturday deliveries scrapped."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024
But leaders of the opposition said they would not countenance it unless Netanyahu stops the ratification process first.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
We are looking literally right now on Twitter at someone who will not countenance any sort of challenge to authority, or the rightness of his positions, or the idea that he could learn something.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
“But because he worked for Texas, he had no cause of action. The war powers … do not countenance that result. It’s not right.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
I could not countenance that we would abandon the town.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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