tolerance
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Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner similarly described the attack as an assault on the city’s values of freedom and tolerance, while other European leaders and LGBTQ+ organizations expressed solidarity with victims and the Berlin community.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Absent consistent, transparent proof points, we’d expect the market’s tolerance for incremental capex to narrow,” the analyst added as he lowered his price target to $400 a share from $417.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
People who regularly consume larger amounts of caffeinated coffee may gradually develop a tolerance.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh will pledge to lawmakers that the central bank has no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Educated at Durmstrang, a school famous even then for its unfortunate tolerance of the Dark Arts, Grindelwald showed himself quite as precociously brilliant as Dumbledore.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
“It’s the wind and wind chill coupled with temperatures below freezing that tend to push the operating tolerances beyond their thresholds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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
Vocabulary lists containing tolerance
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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