accepting
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The agency is accepting responses until 3 p.m.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The Westchester County Board of Elections said it was aware of an issue involving paper ballots that is preventing voting machines from accepting ballots at polling locations throughout the county.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
“We decided that the importance of Dwyane warranted making those refinements rather than accepting something we believed could be improved.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Akhtar is 14 years older than one of her siblings, Mohammed Rafi, now 32, and said the treatment he received growing up was a lot more accepting.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
She’d had such a difficult time herself accepting that there could be a monster in his family, how would he take it?
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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