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752 examples of Acceptable in a sentence

Countries in the tropics are the keenest consumers, because culturally, it's acceptable.
These improvements can be expensive, so managers must decide what the acceptable uncertainty for each project is.
And by the way, if you add the projections for nuclear on here, particularly if you assume that the work many are doing to try to break through to safer and more acceptable, more affordable forms of nuclear, this could change even more dramatically.
If we dismiss these new natures as not acceptable or trashy or no good, we might as well just pave them over.
And do we really want to live in a society where people are denied their basic humanity if they don't subscribe to some arbitrary form of acceptable?
These days, it feels like Islamophobia is a socially acceptable form of bigotry.
And through these experiences, I've come to recognize that each of us have something called a range of acceptable behavior.
Even making an offer was outside his range of acceptable behavior.
So we need tools to expand our range of acceptable behavior.
There is emotional damage done when young people can't be themselves, when they are forced to edit who they are in order to be acceptable.
I'm not saying that their behavior is acceptable, but I have learned to distance myself from the hateful views without distancing myself from the person who's expressing those views.
Now, if we can forget the horrible inhumanity of that response, these Nigerians have been raised to think of women as inherently guilty, and they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings without any control is somehow acceptable.
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures.
Let the words of my mouth, the meditation of our hearts, be acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
By Wimsatt and Beardsley's logic, the artist's interpretation of her own work would just be one among many equally acceptable possibilities.
When labels are hard to read or there's no handrail or we can't open the damn jar, we blame ourselves, our failure to age successfully, instead of the ageism that makes those natural transitions shameful and the discrimination that makes those barriers acceptable.
To put the assumptions very clearly: capitalism, after 150 years, has become acceptable, and so has democracy.
There is anger that's acceptable.
But it is still socially acceptable to publicly vilify women as such, because none of these reasons have made it into the social narrative.
If I had brushed her words aside, the rest of the class could actually infer that this type of comment is acceptable.
For these ideas to be feasible, we need to understand whether they can be applied at a vast scale in a way that is safe, economic and socially acceptable.
When did we come to live in a world where these types of typos, common errors, this do-your-best attitude or just good enough was acceptable?
Most patients feel that those risks are acceptable for the chance to diagnose and treat their illnesses.
And while it is perfectly, perfectly acceptable to pay strangers to do things for you, you need to be very, very careful when it comes to incentivizing your friends and coworkers.
And so when did it become acceptable to make it difficult for science to happen in unstable places?
And we're going to give you 20 seconds for each of these dilemmas to judge whether you think they're acceptable or not.
What the company does is ____? on a scale from zero to 10, completely acceptable to completely unacceptable, zero to 10 completely acceptable in your confidence.
The majority of the people at TED thought that it was acceptable to ignore the feelings of the AI and shut it down, and that it is wrong to play with our genes to select for cosmetic changes that aren't related to health.
This is a bias where we give an opinion which is considered socially acceptable, but it's certainly not our own opinion, right?
We reasoned that protecting just a small area of fishing ground for just a few months might lead to dramatic increases in catches, enough to make a difference to this community's bottom line in a time frame that might just be acceptable.
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