patience
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Everybody who preached patience in the new era gulped hard.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
I spent fruitless hours testing my employer’s patience, neglecting my more immediate work while dredging up zero-retweet Twitter posts from the early 2010s.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“I have a hard time believing that Chairman Warsh will have that much patience for above-target inflation,” said Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at Santander Capital Markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Back and forth we went, I in persistent eccentricity, she with tremendous patience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
He, too, had lost patience with the Shakespeare project.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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