as in to agree
to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal)
apparently the contractor expected me to acquiesce to my own fleecing
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Recent Examples of acquiesce
Creditors may be willing to acquiesce in order to receive some money back rather than not receiving any payment at all.
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Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2025
The parents of trans children expressed anger that New York hospitals had seemingly acquiesced to the Republican political agenda before they were legally required to do so.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Previously, Gellar indicated no desire to return to Sunnydale — the fictional California town where Buffy is set — but in recent interviews to promote her new show Dexter: Original Sin, finally acquiesced to wanting to try a reboot.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 4 Feb. 2025
Trump, always eager to project strength, may be tempted to quietly acquiesce.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2025
The parents of trans children expressed anger that New York hospitals had seemingly acquiesced to the Republican political agenda before they were legally required to do so.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Previously, Gellar indicated no desire to return to Sunnydale — the fictional California town where Buffy is set — but in recent interviews to promote her new show Dexter: Original Sin, finally acquiesced to wanting to try a reboot.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 4 Feb. 2025
Trump, always eager to project strength, may be tempted to quietly acquiesce.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquiesce
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And the parties hoping to form Germany’s next government agreed to overhaul borrowing rules to inject more money into the military, although this must still be approved by parliament.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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Elections last September produced a largely inconclusive result, and for three months the ‘ruling’ centre-right OVP party and a host of smaller parties - Social Democrats and liberal Neos party (and the Greens) - struggled to agree on a coalition programme.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Ramaphosa assented to the law on Jan. 23 after five years of public consultation and parliamentary debate.—
Chad de Guzman,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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But the Lebanese government requested the move, and the majority of the Lebanese parliament was ready to assent to the court.—
William Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
30 June 2011
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Ong, 79, also consented to have a second charge taken into consideration for the purposes of sentencing at a court hearing scheduled on April 2, according to a statement from Hotel Properties, in which the tycoon serves as managing director.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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But the requirements presented a problem for those suffering from an incurable and serious disease like Alzheimer’s, who were likely to lose their capacity to consent.—
Renaud Philippe,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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No Ukrainian leadership can accede to regime change and massive limits on its ability to defend itself.—
THOMAS WRIGHT,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Feb. 2025
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In exchange, Israel is acceding to Hamas' request to allow heavy machinery to unearth the bodies of Palestinians buried under rubble.—
Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
NPR,
22 Feb. 2025
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