accept
verb (used with object)
to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor.
have accepted
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present perfectof accept.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The new wave of AI filmmakers have accepted the rise of AI as inevitable, and are forging ahead, increasingly in Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
They have accepted help from family, put money on credit cards and made baseball their only extravagance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
An argument the courts have accepted in the past is that the hard pass represents a kind of admission ticket to a public forum.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
Once women have "accepted it and are happy" they are menopausal or peri-menopausal, they can seek the support they need, she added.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The kind of explanation anyone else, casually glancing out a window, would have accepted without a second thought.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
