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as in patience
the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining
we thank you for your forbearance while we attend to the technical difficulties interrupting the TV program
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as in mercy
kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it
the judge showed forbearance, and gave the teenaged first offender a suspended sentence
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Recent Examples of forbearance
Student loan forbearance is a temporary pause on your student loan payments granted to borrowers who are experiencing financial difficulties.
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Adriana Morga, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
What To Know Since March 2020, defaulted student loans haven't been collected due to administrative forbearance triggered by the pandemic.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Progressive district attorneys in major counties and one state attorney general after another — including the current Democrat who occupies the office, Rob Bonta — repeatedly made the argument that leeway and forbearance were needed in lieu of efforts to aggressively enforce the law.
—Lanhee J. Chen, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Roughly 20 million of those with federal student loan debt have had payments deferred or are in forbearance.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
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Adriana Morga, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
What To Know Since March 2020, defaulted student loans haven't been collected due to administrative forbearance triggered by the pandemic.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Progressive district attorneys in major counties and one state attorney general after another — including the current Democrat who occupies the office, Rob Bonta — repeatedly made the argument that leeway and forbearance were needed in lieu of efforts to aggressively enforce the law.
—Lanhee J. Chen, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Roughly 20 million of those with federal student loan debt have had payments deferred or are in forbearance.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forbearance
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Students develop patience, creativity, communication skills, and the ability to adapt teaching methods to different learning styles.—
Dr. Aviva Legatt,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Which of the following best describes your urgency / patience for Detroit to get back in the postseason?—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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This, in effect, frames even the movie’s unrelated, apolitical happenings as being at the mercy of this dangerous future, backed by Western powers.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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Allowing the Chinese government to circumvent free trade guardrails will ultimately put the U.S. at the mercy of an international supply chain.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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None of this has anything to do with how great Fahy is, giving expertly wry line-readings and selling empathy for a character whose reliably bad decisions don’t always feel clearly motivated.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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Epictetus’s and Nietzsche’s worries about pity or compassion carry over to empathy.—
Colin Marshall,
The Conversation,
22 May 2025
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“Forbearance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbearance. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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