tolerate
Example Sentences
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I tolerate these brief incursions, which are far fewer than the ads that load up individual leagues’ official apps.
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026
The government was "not prepared to tolerate it", she said.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
With the Knicks in the Finals for the first time in a generation, New Yorkers have become increasingly unwilling to tolerate fence-sitting — even from one of the world’s most famously friendly Muppets.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
"Our status as a nuclear power is absolutely non-negotiable," Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published by North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun, adding that the North "will not tolerate any threats".
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
But Pertinax was made emperor against the will of the soldiers, who, accustomed to living licentiously under Commodus, could not tolerate the honest way of life to which Pertinax wished to return them.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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