accepted
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- acceptedly adverb
- quasi-accepted adjective
- unaccepted adjective
- well-accepted adjective
Etymology
Origin of accepted
Example Sentences
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My colleague, computer scientist Stefan Schmid, and I, a technology law and policy scholar, show in a forthcoming accepted paper in the journal Communications of the ACM that large language models exhibit communication bias.
From Salon
In response to the allegation, the former officer accepted his actions, but said he was intending to call Mrs Gather, but had forgotten.
From BBC
Budanov said he had accepted the nomination and would "continue to serve Ukraine".
From Barron's
He appealed for patience, but immediately accepted this is a job where the high stakes mean patience is in short supply.
From BBC
Ozempic revealed that a belief once thought broadly accepted had been held together more by pressure than by conviction, only to unravel once honesty felt safer.
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