tolerance

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She says that studies in mice have shown that starvation enhances the animal’s tolerance to chemotherapy doses but can’t cure the disease outright.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Over time, patients often develop tolerance, meaning they need increasingly higher doses to achieve the same level of relief.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

“At this stage, once the business has grown, our risk tolerance is much higher.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

That looks like a 30/60 allocation of stocks to bonds and 10% cash — or 50/40 stocks to bonds, if you have a higher risk tolerance.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Once established in New Guinea, the sweet potato overtook taro as the highland’s leading crop, because of its shorter time required to reach maturity, higher yields per acre, and greater tolerance of poor soil conditions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond