Tolerate in example sentence

The blurriness of the law creates a no-man’s land of ambiguity in which the authorities thrive: legal predictability is aspirational, while daily life for ordinary people requires navigating the shallow, shifting waters of what the powerful will tolerate.

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Will the cells tolerate it?

When European explorers and travelers spread out, they brought with them the germs that they had become essentially immune to, that they had learned how to tolerate over hundreds and hundreds of years, thousands of years, of living with domesticated animals who were the sources of those pathogens.

This is a story about the fact that people in Africa are no longer willing to tolerate corruption from their leaders.

Most plants don't like salt, but halophytes tolerate salt.

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