acquiescence
Example Sentences
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In response, many leaders in the private sector—as well as in philanthropy, media, law and academia—have responded not with criticism, but with acquiescence and accommodation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
His acquiescence ended a months-long pressure campaign against a handful of Republicans to get them to drop the bill.
From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025
I found something unsettling in their quiet acquiescence: It seemed less like a demonstration of higher principles and more like an act of submission.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2025
He thought the silence was a sign of complete, not complicity, but of terrified acquiescence to a kind of enslavement, and he was not having it.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2024
—William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.