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What is the worst behavior that leaders are tolerating in your workplace right now?

From Salon • May 7, 2023

The judges, meanwhile, in their op-ed said many campuses are tolerating intolerance, and they said the problem is that the next generation isn’t learning to debate and exchange ideas or to respect freedom of speech.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Drivers around the world are tolerating record-high prices for road fuels, as mobility wins out for now over other spending in squeezed household budgets, data showed.

From Reuters • Jun. 15, 2022

On the other side, the Detroit Lions are tolerating Goff and hoping they can make good use of all the draft capital.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

"Yes, and since the atmosphere's pressure actually weighs slightly more than one kilogram per square centimeter, your 17,000 square centimeters are tolerating 17,568 kilograms at this very moment."

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.