How to Use acceptance in a Sentence

acceptance

noun
Definition of acceptancenext
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  • 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 third class is the risk of market acceptance of a new product.
    — Arie Brish, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • His acceptance speech was the longest and most touching of the evening.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • This means the acceptance is very high even though very few customers have seen the car.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Pride days and weeks and ready acceptance at work and in public roles?
    — Tony Peters, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The House soon received the acceptance letter from Grant, which didn't stop them.
    — Kristina Abovyan, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The source said there is broad acceptance that things need to change for a new era of television.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 July 2022
  • Robles gave a glimpse of what was next with his acceptance speech.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The large groups have helped boost confidence and feelings of acceptance for the tour guides, Drury said.
    — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Lavoie did his first acceptance speech in French, and then English.
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The new rules were not met with widespread acceptance ahead of their approval.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 June 2024
  • Jazmine Sullivan won the award and during her acceptance speech addressed the men of the world.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 26 June 2022
  • This was probably not the kind of public acceptance that Quinn and Barr had in mind.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • There have been some recent wins for the body acceptance movement.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
  • In her own acceptance speech, Hazzard called him on it.
    — Joan Frank, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Really and truly blown away by the acceptance from the WWE fans!
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Trump has railed against the acceptance of transgender people, and the use of pronouns.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Science is supposed to be the search for truth, not the acceptance of orthodoxy.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The impression is that there is at least acceptance that something needs to change.
    — Jack Lang, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In just 18 months at the helm of Italy, Meloni has become a model of how a far-right leader can win warm acceptance in the West.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
  • Beckham says that with a tone of acceptance, but also a tinge of regret.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 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
  • Her acceptance speech and subsequent coverage of the speech put the brakes on the trial.
    — Emma Hinchliffe and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 23 June 2022
  • Terry Dubrow is ready to meet whatever his kids present to him with love and acceptance.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • His stoicism — his cautious belief in his own survival, his acceptance of inevitable damage — is heartbreaking.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • With Congress’ and past president’s acceptance or neglect, the federal bureaucracy has assumed greater power.
    — Matt Klink, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2025

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