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ac·cept·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. acceptingadjective

    tolerating without protest

    "always more accepting of coaching suggestion than her teammates"; "the atmosphere was judged to be more supporting and accepting"

Wiktionary

  1. acceptingadjective

    Characterized by acceptance.

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  1. accepting

    Accepting refers to the act of willingly receiving or consenting to something, such as an idea, change, or situation. It could also mean acknowledging the existence or truth of something, even if it's unpleasant or unwanted. In terms of tolerance, it means welcoming and respecting different viewpoints, attitudes, or behaviors of others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Accepting

    of Accept

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of accepting in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of accepting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of accepting in a Sentence

  1. Shunryu Suzuki:

    Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  2. Tiger Woods:

    We've been able to go out there and compete, he's got a lot better at throwing the needle at me now and he's accepting it faster and reversing it back. We have a deal, in the backyard generally every night we'll play putting matches and the winner gets to keep the green jacket in the closet.

  3. Raneshwar Sing Kishan:

    Bootlicking mainstream media is spreading wrong picture of the farmers protest and the foolish viewers are accepting it.

  4. Jean Baudrillard:

    Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

  5. John Oliver:

    Here’s the problem. It increasingly seems like, if Donald Trump loses, we are not going to get the concession speech that the country badly needs, because Donald Trump is medically incapable of accepting that Donald Trump is Donald Trump, so we need to find a way for Donald Trump to give a concession speech, while Donald Trump’s still able to claim that Donald Trump won something.

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