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tolerance

[tol-er-uhns] / ˈtɒl ər əns /






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Navigators also helped make sure patients completed important follow-up steps after appointments, including glucose tolerance testing and subsequent medical visits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

What is your risk tolerance versus risk capacity — the former being the risk you’re comfortable with versus the latter, which is how much risk your portfolio can handle without disrupting your financial goals?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

“I would really like—through music, through art—to re-establish the values of humanity,” he said, citing attributes like mutual respect, love, tolerance and friendship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The AWS equipment was later found to be positioned 16mm below rail level, outside the permitted tolerance.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

This happened when heptachlor was given a tolerance that later had to be revoked.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“My agent will know the places I like, it will have insight into my finances, my budget, my risk tolerances, all my preferences from the kind of room I like to my pillow type.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

The tourism sector is acutely susceptible to security issues, but "different tourists from different parts of the world have different risk tolerances," Bohl said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

But people have different risk tolerances, joys, skills and motivations.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

Dire wolves, native to Southern California but not limited to the region, were highly adaptable and had a very wide range of environmental tolerances before the species went extinct about 10,000 years ago, Lindsey said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

State and county officials are under no compulsion to follow the federal pesticides tolerances unless local laws happen to conform — and they seldom do.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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