tolerance
Example Sentences
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With food costs having increased last year by almost 4% in Japan, there is likely little public tolerance for more price hikes at the grocery.
From Barron's
If Wagner’s job seems to require an unusual combination of skills—mastery of fluid dynamics, comfort with public speaking, strong pint tolerance—he comes by them honestly.
In a local high school, she listened to concerns about mental health and student democracy, and chimed in on a song about national unity and tolerance.
The conventional sequence that tells you “experience first, risk later” assumes that risk tolerance remains constant over time.
“It is manufactured to a tolerance of one defect in a million,” the report states.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
