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“We were tolerating each other’s playing, but that became very hard,” DelGrosso says, adding that he just recently moved into a studio apartment, which he considers a certain marker of success considering the circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2021

"You're looking peart and—fleshy," he said resignedly, as if he were tolerating his own conventional politeness with his other difficulties; "unless," he added cautiously, "you're takin' on some new disease."

From Openings in the Old Trail by Harte, Bret

The right reverend prelate asserted that statesmen were tolerating a social organisation, destined one day to involve the empire in deep disgrace, and exhibit the awful spectacle of a nation of criminals!

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John

Lincoln, generations later, gave what was undoubtedly the true explanation of this shrinking from the name of the thing they were tolerating and even protecting.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The Wise Girl figured that they were tolerating her out of mere Politeness.

From People You Know by Ade, George