- present participle of accept.
accepting
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According to HRW, some of the countries accepting the deportees have "arbitrarily detained" or sent them to their home countries, where they face "the risk of persecution or torture".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Upon accepting her Oscar for supporting actress for the film, the nine-months pregnant Saint kissed the statuette and joked, “I may have the baby right here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“I love CEOs. …But most of them would rather be accepting awards from business publications and speaking in business schools, rather than focusing on everything that can go wrong,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I’m having trouble accepting that I’ll probably lose some money in the end.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
He noted that instead of accepting Aristotle’s proof of God, the Muslim scholars turned to the atomists, Aristotle’s old rivals, whose doctrine, though out of favor, managed to survive the ravages of time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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