acquiesce
verb (used without object)
to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent.
have acquiesced
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present perfectof acquiesce.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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No administration would have dared, and no department official would have acquiesced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
Some Big Tech companies have acquiesced to governmental demands restricting apps.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
For the most part, they have acquiesced to the demand over the past 10 years, with new albums, TV appearances, tell-all memoirs and podcasts, but especially reunion tours.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
I'm not sure that "The Daily Show" would have lasted 25 years if Madeleine and I would have acquiesced to turn it into some kind of "Entertainment Tonight" kind of comedy show.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2021
His adversaries might have been content with the degree of ruin they had wrought if he would have acquiesced in his fall.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
