accepting
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- acceptingly adverb
- acceptingness noun
Etymology
Origin of accepting
Example Sentences
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Another person with a nut allergy wrote in an online review that they were "flat out refused service" despite accepting the risk and that the restaurants rule on allergies is "not an acceptable one".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
The takeaway: the market is accepting that even the dominant and pioneering Nvidia isn’t immune to competition.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
It will mean accepting once again, however painful it may be, that balls and strikes are whatever the umpire says they are.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
In “Rooster,” Steve Carell plays Greg Russo, a divorced bestselling author roped into accepting a writer’s residency at the university where his daughter teaches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
To top it off, I was still having trouble accepting that Thomas no longer lived there.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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