How to Use acceptance in a Sentence

acceptance

noun
Definition of acceptancenext
Synonyms for acceptancenext
  • The university has sent me a letter of acceptance.
  • He delivered an acceptance speech after he was chosen as the party's presidential nominee.
  • And the acceptance letters to the two students have yet to be sent out.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The House soon received the acceptance letter from Grant, which didn't stop them.
    — Kristina Abovyan, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This acceptance of what became the Bill of Rights has been pivotal to the way Britain is governed since.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There have been some recent wins for the body acceptance movement.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
  • Brown, as Monk’s brother, is on a reckless journey to find truth and acceptance as a gay man.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Here, again, Huang allows the reader to feel how hard Wong had to fight for acceptance, this time among her own people.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Terry Dubrow is ready to meet whatever his kids present to him with love and acceptance.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The solution is tough to use and rates low on business leader acceptance.
    — Lora Cecere, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • In other words, there’s carte blanche acceptance of debt with no assessment of risk.
    — Brian Curcio, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Stranger friendships have worked; all any of them needs is mutual acceptance of terms.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And the other thing that’s sort of sliding along is the rise of political violence and the rising acceptance of it.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The acceptance letter was a dream come true, but the financial shortfall threatened to shatter that dream.
    — Christian Anderson, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The rationale was that a student's college acceptance should rely on their grades, not on race.
    — ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • In Trible’s first decade as president, the number of CNU applicants soared and its acceptance rate dropped from 82% to about half.
    — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In Canada, there isn't a lot of acceptance for Black artists who want to do things that are outside the mainstream or do things that are not stereotypical.
    — Hazlitt, 25 May 2023
  • The price tag of Brella might be a major factor in patient acceptance, Busso said.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Many tend to think her of final decades in the United States as a time of sadness and failure, but Zhong considers her acceptance of fate a kind of resilience.
    — Lisa Movius, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • And with that acceptance came music that truly exemplified her and all the things that are important to her.
    — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Mohamad Al-Fayed was always seeking acceptance from the British and that then became Dodi’s plight as a result.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, over the past several years, Palestinian food has risen in both popularity and acceptance in the U.S.
    — Reem Kassis, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The enforcement is a turning point for an industry that seemed to be gaining mainstream acceptance just a year ago.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • The Biden administration moved up Israel’s acceptance into the program to Oct. 14 after the Hamas attack; it had been scheduled for the end of this month.
    — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But six months ago, Kymera Mitchell, 18, received her first college acceptance letter.
    — Jenna Smith, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • On the other hand, the reaction of acceptance is likely a concerted effort to fight against this fear and embrace the change (or maybe people in the filter just look better).
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023
  • But then, Lawrence already had a high rate of acceptance, with 94% of vouchers issued being accepted six months ago and 97% today.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Meeting other engaged and active residents will fast-track your acceptance and will help you to make new friends among your group of neighbors.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • Specifically, those who find challenges in commuting or travel have found help in the acceptance of work from home post-Covid-19.
    — Nick Charles, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And now, slowly but surely, acceptance has begun to arrive.
    — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024

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